Word: plante
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...versatile tanks that take naturally to water, which are being assembled at General Motors' Cleveland plant. The Sheridan, the most revolutionary tank since World War II, is the U.S.'s first with a cannon capable of firing both conventional shells and guided missiles. It can be air-dropped from C-130 or C-141 cargo planes (by eight 100-ft.-wide parachutes) without damage, swim like a turtle across water obstacles. After testing, it will go into operation within a year. An even more versatile vehicle, the MBT-70 (for Main Battle Tank...
...nonaligned" stance, Sukarno took equipment from any country willing to lend him the money to pay for it. As a result, the electricity plant at Makasar, for example, operates on generators from four different countries, making it impossible to cannibalize one machine to supply spare parts for the rest -and requiring the services of four separate groups of maintenance...
...sense that they are invaded. Their neighbor's picture window looks in on theirs, the freeways are too crowded, the beaches are jammed. Says Science-Fiction Writer Ray Bradbury: "The best thing that could happen to New York would be to blow up every other block and plant the rubble with grass, turning it into gardens and pools so that people could get away from...
...upwards of $27 million, Newhouse got the two papers, some choice downtown real estate consisting of a highly automated modern printing plant that he says is a "jewel" and, as an added bonus, the Pascagoula (Miss.) Chronicle (circ. 10,050). The deal also included half-interest in Mobile's WKRG and WKRG-TV, which means that the FCC must give its approval before the bargain is finally sealed...
With sales of its smooth light Pilsner beer expanding nicely, Denmark's Carlsberg Brewery this summer is pushing completion of a 12,000-ton-capacity barley silo at its plant in the Copenhagen suburb of Valby. Nobody keeps a more interested eye on the project than Carlsberg's competitor, United Breweries, which produces Tuborg. But the watchful eye is not at all due to envy. On the contrary: Tuborg is paying half of the silo's cost and hopes that the facility pays...