Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Roy August Fruehauf, 57, president and then chairman of Fruehauf Corp., world's largest maker of truck trailers (1964 sales: $313 million) founded by his father in 1918, who in 1953 squeezed his brother out as chairman and staved off a muchpublicized proxy raid with the aid of a $1,500,000 stock-purchase loan from then Teamster Boss Dave Beck, five years later found himself indicted along with Beck for repaying the favor with a $200,000 loan of his own (illegal under the Taft-Hartley Act), was eventually acquitted, but not before a group of dissident...
Situation Hopeless-But Not Serious. It is Germany, 1944. Allied bombs are splintering a village, and out of the smoke and rubble steps a helmeted, hesitant air-raid warden named Frick...
Along with the fighter-bombers goes a covey of other craft: jammers to knock out the enemy's radar, flying command and communications posts, planes whose radar sweeps the sky for signs of attacking Communist aircraft. RF-101 photo-reconnaissance planes dive into the smoke to film the raid's damage for analysis back home, using strobelike parachute flares at night. Backing the raids also are the planes and helicopters of the Air Rescue Service, ready to pluck a downed airman out of the enemy heartland...
...nowhere to be found, so the rampaging mob last week had to make do with less. They sacked one of Aidit's four Djakarta homes and burned his furniture, then headed for the offices of his cocky Communist Youth Front. There, at the starting point of many a raid on the American library or embassy, the rioters administered poetic justice: the Red headquarters went up in flames...
...FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Solo, Illya and Mr. Waverly himself raid a Thrush fruggery in "The Discotheque Affair...