Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dressing room in a wheelchair to ease the pain of a crushed disk in her back, and dismisses visitors with the sigh, "I must do my breathing now." Since pneumonia damaged her lungs in 1961, she has had to inflate them several times a day with a pressurized oxygen tank that accompanies her everywhere (she calls it "Charlie...
...veteran of the Haganah, the Jewish underground army at the time of the British mandate, Rabin also served as a British commando behind Vichy French lines in World War II. As Israeli chief of staff for the past four years, he developed a highly motivated officer corps, modernized the tank force, and maintained a hair-trigger state of readiness. Last week Eshkol escalated his campaign a bit further by designating Rabin the new Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Eshkol seems to be grooming Rabin for appointment to the Defense Ministry. Then, during the campaign, he will have on his side...
...Battlefields of the Future. The MBT-70 (for Main Battle Tank of the 1970s), a 50-ton monster (approximate cost: $600,000) jointly designed and built by West Germany and the U.S., is touted to be the ultimate in the next generation of heavy tanks. It can dash 400 miles at a top speed of 42 m.p.h. without refueling (v. 100 miles and 18 m.p.h. by the Panzer IVs of Rommel's famed Afrika Korps). It can cross rivers simply by driving underwater, locate targets in the night with infra-red and starlight viewfinders, and pinpoint their range with...
...hydraulic lift system can completely change the tank's posture. From its top height of 87 in., it can hunker down on its tracks 19 in. to become a less inviting target; it can independently move its front, back or either of its sides to maneuver or to level itself on broken terrain. Its crew sits in air-conditioned comfort beneath a perch with 360° vision. It is at least two years from becoming operational, and it is clearly meant for a different kind of war than Viet Nam: it can withstand contamination from atomic, bacteriological or chemical...
...Green was not cured. In 1955, he sawed his way out of his cell, but the alarm went off before he and his confederates could get any farther. Desperately, they took over a cell block, and an 84-hour prison revolt began that 38 state policemen and an Army tank could not quell. It only ended when Ringleader Green's daughter pleaded with him to surrender; after extracting some promises of reforms, he did. Some promises were kept, but Green was on his way to Alcatraz, the federal pen for troublemakers...