Word: ryan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ryan in MGM's Bad Day at Black Rock...
...Army Fullback Jack Ryan finally got into the Harvard game with the Crimson holding a 6-0 lead. In quick succession, he 1) tackled a Harvard runner so hard that the fellow fumbled and Ryan recovered, 2) bucked over a score on an Army fourth down, and 3) kicked the point after touchdown that won the game for Army...
That glorious occasion is what is mostly remembered about John Dale Ryan, now 48 and a four-star Air Force general who still moves with the catlike grace of a 5-ft. 10-in., 175-pound fullback. Last week President Johnson named Ryan to succeed, effective this week, General Thomas Power as head of the world's most powerful military organization-the U.S. Strategic Air Command...
...Ryan lacks the bulldozer force of SAC Predecessor Curtis LeMay, soon to retire as Air Force Chief of Staff, and he does not pretend to Power's burning brilliance. But he was a favorite of both LeMay and Power, and he knows SAC as perhaps no other...
...pilotless plane the Chinese shot down almost certainly was a Ryan Fire-bee flown out of South Viet Nam. The Ryan Aeronautical Co. of San Diego has sold some 2,000 such aircraft to the Defense Department. With a 12-ft. 10-in. wingspan, the Firebee can fly at a maximum altitude of 61,000 ft., attains speeds of up to 633 m.p.h., and can stay up for an hour and a half. It is launched from a mother ship, generally a Lockheed C-130 Hercules, from a distance up to 200 miles away from the target area. The mother...