Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ideal for Tanks. Strong words? Consider: a magazine recently advertised replicas of the derringer pistol as the dandy little model that killed "two of our country's Presidents, Abraham Lincoln and William McKinley." Another suggested: SUBMACHINE GUN FOR FATHER'S DAY? Yet another offered, for $99.50, a 20-mm. antitank gun, "ideal for long-range shots at deer and bear or at cars and trucks and even a tank if you happen...
...already as stripped down as it can get this side of decency. Supporters of this view have decided to replace mere bareness with well-designed scantiness. Their favorite is the one-piece bathing suit. But if this summons up images of yesteryear's skirted models or even the tank suit, look again (see color pages). The one-piece advocates are using all kinds of current high-fashion tricks, including plunging necklines, ruffles, open sides and cutouts...
...successor, General Creighton W. Abrams Jr., 53, a hard-cussing, cigar-chomping specialist in tank warfare, takes over the superb American military machine Westmoreland did so much to fashion in Viet Nam and is bringing in new generals to give it new directions. "Abe is by nature a slugger and a killer," judges one of his military peers. "Westy tends to be a boxer." And after a year spent spurring South Viet Nam's army to action, Abrams is at last able to supply them with the M-16 rifles that Westmoreland requested in 1965 and other modern weaponry...
Typical of the Class of 1918 was Eliot Adams Chapin, who on June 27 flew his De Haviland two-seater on a bombing run against a railroad at Thionville, north of Metz. A swarm of German Fokker Scouts atacked the formation, raking Chapin's gas tank with bullets. Witnesses saw Chapin calmly shake hands with his navigator as the De Haviland burst into flames at 1,300 feet...
Back to Work. Those fears seemed to be ungrounded. Though De Gaulle moved a tank regiment into the vicinity of Paris and alerted a few reserve units, there was no fresh rush to the barricades by his opponents, the workers and the anarchical students led by Daniel Cohn-Bendit. Shoring up his government, De Gaulle fired eight Ministers, including just about everyone identified with his old social and labor policies, and switched two important portfolios: Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville went to the Treasury, while Finance Minister Michel Debré moved over to the Quai d'Orsay...