Word: rovers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...threatening to escalate, Princess Grace rushed back from a shopping trip to Paris with her two children and a poodle, and 30 "war" correspondents flocked into the principality. In the U.S., meanwhile, Rainier found a champion in the New York Herald Tribune's Art Buchwald, a quondam Riviera rover now based in Washington. Rainier should bar a Negro student from the Monaco High School, suggested Buchwald, so that the U.S. would have an excuse to send in federal marshals. "When it seems that they can't handle the situation," he added, "we would have to send in paratroopers...
...more often working for the black marketeers of Canton running gold bars, ginseng, watches and saccharin upriver to Changsha and Wuhan. His boldest act was his escape to Hong Kong. He stole a government seal, used it to stamp a letter "authorizing" him to requisition a Land Rover from a PSB motor pool. He drove to the Hong Kong border, and the PSB emblem on the car was as good as a pass-Red Chinese soldiers waved him by roadblocks...
...rebel defenses. The regular army, he declared, was being cheated of its triumphal entry into Algiers, where his officers anticipated fat political jobs and his men dreamed of the soft garrison life. Boumedienne got his way, and this week, grinning broadly, he headed for Algiers in a green Land Rover at the head of a token force of 4,000 army regulars, who will remain as a part of the city's garrison...
Despite its drive to diversify, E.G. & G. still makes 85% of its sales to the Government. Along with AEC nuclear tests, the company is timing and measuring NASA's nuclear space engine, Project Rover. This week, NASA will also launch a geodetic survey satellite whose blinking light-made by E.G. & G.-will be visible from outer space for ground observers to track. The capriciousness of Government contracting can be costly for a small company; in 1958, after the U.S. declared a moratorium on nuclear tests, E.G. & G.'s contract with the AEC was slashed overnight from...
Robert A. Kaisety '68 and five M.I.T. students are planning to drive about 15,000 miles in a Land-Rover from London to India and back...