Word: swiftness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...find out more about STRIKE'S combat readiness, Adams ordered the Carolina maneuvers, dubbed "Operation Swift Strike II.'' F-100 fighters roared low over the peanut and beanfields in close support of sweltering G.I.s armed with new M-14 rifles and M-60 machine guns. C124 cargo planes lumbered overhead to airdrop Jeeps to the troops below. During one exhausting night, 194 huge cargo planes of the Military Air Transport Service flew in 8,000 men of the 5th Mechanized Infantry Division and 6,000 tons of equipment from Fort Carson, Colo., 1,800 miles away...
Zaibatsu & Politics. Tokyo's business journal was born 86 years ago, just after the country itself burst from feudalism with a bang that startled the world. Nikkei's own progress to distinction was by no means as swift. A creation of one of the zaibatsu, or business cartels, that dominated Japan's early industrialization period, Nikkei struggled for years against public apathy. Its proprietors, the Mitsui interests, finally tired of their experiment in 1901, sold the paper to its staff (it remains a staff-owned paper today). When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, Nikkei...
...Motors (1961 sales: $11.4 billion), Jersey Standard ($8.4 billion), Ford ($6.7 billion) and General Electric ($4.5 billion). Socony Mobil ($3.32 billion) rose from sixth to fifth, overtaking U.S. Steel ($3.3 billion). Only new face among the top ten was the nation's largest food processor, Chicago's Swift & Co. ($2.48 billion), which moved back up to tenth place after slipping to eleventh in 1960. Swift's return to the top ten was a result of the decline of Chrysler, which, with sales off 29% to $2.1 billion, skidded from seventh place in 1960 to twelfth place last...
...Outer Mongolia's affairs. In Laos, Russia infuriated China by promoting a deal, however unsteady, with the U.S. and heralding it as "a major accomplishment." In India, Russia has supported Nehru's border war against Red China, first by providing small arms and helicopters for the swift movement of troops, most recently by offering the Indians supersonic MIG-21 jet fighters...
...Christianity as a whole, the most interesting half of the double bill set up for next October's Second Vatican Ecumenical Council is not "modernization" of the Roman Catholic Church but "Christian unity." No swift healing of the break that stems from Luther is remotely in prospect; yet many a move can be made. Hard at work on behalf of the Vatican is a German-born cardinal who got his red hat from Pope John XXIII in 1959: Augustin Bea, S.J., head of the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity...