Word: steel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grenades. Every American was wounded, some in hand-to-hand combat in which Marines clubbed attackers with rifle butts or hacked them with knives. At least 48 of the Communists were killed by the platoon; many others were lost when Howard summoned up artillery and air strikes that rained steel and napalm on the hill. When grenade fragments paralyzed both legs, Howard organized a tight defense and handed his ammunition to Marines still able to fight, before taking charge of the platoon's radio. When reinforcements tried to land by helicopter at daybreak, Howard waved them out of danger...
...activity cost North Viet Nam far more. Bombing relentlessly as close as 18 miles from the Chinese border, the U.S. jets smashed rail depots, rolling stock and miles of track. They turned the two railroad lines that carry Red Chinese supplies to Hanoi into a smoking junkyard of twisted steel. Fanning out, they also clobbered bridges and power stations...
...striped uniform worn only by those who have already been convicted. Although local papers warn against prejudging Debray, the government is conducting a campaign to assure that the public remains convinced of his guilt. Throughout Bolivia, posters attack Debray as an assassin and warn: "He who kills with steel will die by steel...
While the hatch problem was being solved, NASA and North American Aviation engineers went to work on combustible materials that had cluttered Apollo's spacecraft before the January fire. Aluminum plumbing which melted at 1080° F. has been replaced by stainless steel. Brazed joints that withstand temperatures approaching 1,600° F. have been substituted for soldered joints that melt at 360° F. Coolant pipelines, which service electronic components and can release flammable glycol when ruptured, have been "armor-plated" at joints with high-strength epoxy. Should the joints come open, the epoxy serves as a back...
...average $4.68 that G.M.'s workers now get in wages and benefits. More realistically, the union's goal is probably a full 6% increase-at a time when the automakers are just beginning to feel the cost of mandatory safety modifications and higher prices in steel, copper and rubber. Ford last week announced that, even without a strike and a big wage increase, the company's profits will be down about 40% this year from 1966's $621 million...