Word: tankfuls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...life. Even career stuntmen quake at his sight gags. In A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, he was almost bisected by a chariot. In How I Won the War, an unreleased film with Beatle John Lennon, he is nearly mashed by a German tank. In Black Comedy, eight times a week for four months, he has skidded down staircases on his heel, hurtled into doors face first, crashed to the floor entangled in a phone wire...
...hover pallets, air-cushion platforms that can be used to move heavy industrial loads. In a recent British Hovercraft demonstration, for example, a 41-ton machine tool on a hover pallet was easily pushed several feet by two men. By fixing a skirt around a 14-ton oil-storage tank at a military depot and pumping in air, hovercraft technicians were able to move the tank on a cushion of air across a road and a railroad line to a new location. A hover transporter, designed for Britain's Central Electricity Generating Board, has already been used to carry...
...Negro Navy radio man who was in grade school with me in Indianapolis, a helicopter pilot who belonged to my college fraternity at Brown, and an infantry officer who lived in my old Harlem neighborhood." Correspondent Terry was heartened by what he saw and heard in Viet Nam. "The tank I rode on had a Negro commander and an all-white crew. I have observed here the most successfully integrated institution in America...
...eran. He had only five months of frontline infantry service during World War II, and even that was a staff assignment; during the Korean War, he was assigned to the Pentagon and Trieste. Though all too clearly no Patton type, he is known nonetheless as the most gifted tank officer that the JCS has ever had-based on his cool performance in the second-floor Pentagon "tank," where the Joint Chiefs meet thrice weekly by themselves and confer each Monday with McNamara and Deputy Secretary Cyrus Vance. Wheeler is also at ease on Capitol Hill, even when that involves directly...
Target-Range Marksmanship. Designed to protect conventional 140-m.p.h. Hueys and other troop-carrying choppers against ground fire, the Cheyenne will pack rockets, anti-tank missiles, a grenade launcher and belly-mounted automatic cannon. Even its looks can kill: if the gunner, using a computer and enemy-seeking infra-red sight, has his hands full with one target, the pilot, who wears a special sight-equipped helmet, can automatically take aim at another merely by glancing...