Word: rocketeers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...living and the dead had the same gray pallor. When I finally got on the helicopter to get out of there, I just bawled, I was so glad to be alive." The same year Faas wrote a moving story while he was in a hospital recovering from a severe rocket wound. Without his camera, Faas simply recorded in words the scene around him: the boy without a face, the stains on the nurses' clothes, the moans, the man who quietly quivered and died during the evening television news...
Most of the federally sponsored research in the last decade has focused on space and defense and has had limited practical use. "The supposed technological fallout from the NASA program has been more of a drip-out," says Physicist Ralph Lapp. He characterizes the Saturn F-l moon rocket as a typical example of "techno-giantism," which involves enormous effort and expense to perform an exquisitely specialized task, but so far has almost no application for a civilian market...
...once the most carefree capital in Southeast Asia, was filled with grim and eerie rumors (see box). Throughout the countryside, the fighting was somewhat less intense than usual. Scattered clashes were reported at several strategic points within 35 miles of Phnom-Penh. Cambodian soldiers found a 122-mm. Communist rocket in a town retaken from Communist soldiers only 14 miles north of Phnom-Penh, the closest to the capital that such long-range weapons have been discovered. At week's end some 8,000 civilians and more than a battalion of Cambodian troops were evacuated from two towns...
When Poems, Auden's first book, burst like a rocket upon the literary scene in 1930, it showed the obvious influence of T.S. Eliot. Nor is Yeats mentioned, though some later Auden lyrics - including "In Memory of W.B. Yeats" - bear structural resemblances to his work...
...closed down by Communist troops and blockades. The train route to Bangkok was severed when Communist troops halted two trains, one a heavily loaded freight, the other carrying passengers. They carried off 200 tons of rice, forcing the passengers to act as porters, then destroyed both locomotives with B40 rocket blasts. That line also runs through the provincial capital of Battambang, where most of Cambodia's rice reserves are stored in warehouses. Heavy fighting was reported at TonleBet and Kompong Thorn, two northern cities that have been under frequent attack for weeks...