Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lost some 500 armored vehicles and nearly one-third of his air force. Since the U.S. and Britain -his principal suppliers of weaponry -had refused to replenish Ayub's stores, he turned to Red China, whose leaders were happy to turn a political profit. No sooner had the tank-and-jet performance completed last week's "Pakistan Day" celebrations than the Chinese collected the first installment of Ayub's debt. Into Rawalpindi flew Red Chinese President Liu Shao-chi and Foreign Minister Chen Yi for five days of talks and ceremonies. They were swept through Rawalpindi...
...While lox boils off at a difficult -290° F., LH2 boils at -423° F., thus requires extreme pressurization to keep cool. Moreover, in weightless space, LH2, like mercury, tends to gather into a ball or spin off into tiny globs; simply to feed the fuel from tank to engines, the second stage was equipped with three fast-burning rockets that exerted enough G force to start the LH2, flowing. All went smoothly, and after 7½ minutes of burn, Saturn was 170 miles...
When word leaked out a year ago that West Germany was supplying Israel with $80 million worth of "secondhand" Patton tanks, the response from the Arab world was torrential in its outrage. All but three of the 13 Arab countries (Morocco, Tunisia and Libya) broke diplomatic ties with Bonn, and Egypt's Nasser threatened the ultimate retaliatory blow: recognition of East Germany. Chancellor Ludwig Erhard hastily suspended the shipments and vowed never to panzer to Israel again. Last week the U.S. confirmed that it had picked up the tank deal with Israel where Bonn had left off. This time...
...weapons to both sides of the unstable Middle Eastern power equation. For more than a decade, sometimes by proxy, the U.S. has been engaged in an effort to maintain a "balance of weaponry" between Israel and the Arabs. Indeed, it was the U.S. that financed Bonn's embarrassing tank deal. The Soviet Union has pumped a cool $1 billion worth of arms and aircraft into the Arab world in an effort to unbalance the situation. Earlier this month, a flight of supersonic MIG-21D fighters roared into Cairo, giving Egypt a clear tactical edge over Israel's slower...
...swimming team appears to be a typical Harvard freshman tank squad. Although it has a reputable 5-2 mark, the two losses were to Ivy foes Dartmouth, 32-63, and Princeton...