Word: rocketeers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...February. Shortly before President Nixon flies off on his historic visit to China, all hell suddenly breaks loose in South Viet Nam. From the DMZ to the Delta, North Vietnamese troops raid towns, rocket cities, throw Saigon's forces into confusion. In the vulnerable Central Highlands, the Communists capture the inland city of Kontum and then sweep on to the seacoast, slicing the country...
...Much Rain. At dawn we set off again. When we finally reach the ambush site, we find only some rice left behind by the NVA, a pair of bloody trousers, a B40 North Vietnamese rocket case and a document nobody can read...
...least $5.5 billion over the next six years, the system will be designed to transport at least a dozen passengers and cargo between orbiting space stations and the earth. The vehicle is to be a hybrid that looks something like a jet fighter, takes off like a rocket and lands like an ordinary plane...
...major contractors to meet the tentative target date (1978) for the first flight. There is considerable opposition in Congress to expensive new space ventures, and there are also formidable engineering problems. Initially, NASA hoped to build a piggyback shuttle system in which both the passenger vehicle and launching rocket could be piloted back to earth (TIME, June 22, 1970). But combining the characteristics of a rocket ship and a jet plane in both craft would be extremely costly. Now NASA will probably settle for a less sophisticated design...
...effective bookkeeping section. Now Wallace's thriving business stands to clear half a million dollars this year. Says Wallace: "Dermot is the bridge, the man who makes the contacts when I have a problem that I can't solve. He launched me like a rocket, but he doesn't try to hold my hand...