Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coups or clouds kept getting in the way. Finally 19 propeller-driven South Vietnamese Skyraiders and 20 U.S. Air Force Super Sabres took off from Danang and headed for the North Vietnamese torpedo-boat base at Quangkhe, 65 miles north of the 17th parallel. There they relentlessly clobbered berths, repair shops, ammo dumps and supply warehouses with 70 tons of bombs, destroying an estimated 70% of the targets and sinking three to five PT boats in the bargain...
...devoted to housing for low-income (up to $3,000) families. He sought authority to use urban-renewal and public-housing funds to rehabilitate existing housing, which would then be made available to such families. He also requested permission to use urban-renewal funds to help low-income homeowners repair their homes...
...damage was considerable, with fully 310 windows shattered and the grey facade streaked with reel, blue and black ink. U.S. Ambassador Foy Kohler sent an angry note, charging that police protection had been "grossly inadequate." The protest was accepted by Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, who sent workers to repair the damage...
Last week one of the line's four Caravelles was held at the factory in France for nonpayment of repair bills. More than half of Panair's 25 planes were out of service, and those still flying were often days, not just hours behind schedule. Panair's 4,500 employees were far more than the company needed, but under Brazilian law it was next to impossible to fire them...
Czechoslovakia (9,000,000 Catholics) has plenty of hard-line Stalinists in government and an old anticlerical tradition. Churches are empty and in poor repair; most of the dioceses are without bishops; priests are still arrested for anti-regime activities. But even here the church's prospects are improving. President Antonin Novotny is eager to touch up the Czech image in the West, and his government was clearly embarrassed when the Pope bestowed a red hat on Prague's Archbishop Josef Beran, now under house arrest. Czech exiles in Rome are preparing Beran's quarters...