Word: tankfuls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...officers' corps or noncoms; they simply choose their sheiks and follow them into battle. "We captured 14 field radios,'' sighed Prince Abdullah Ibn Hassan, 25, a cousin of the Imam. "But none of my men know how to use them." Nor can they use captured tanks or trucks, since none of the tribesmen know how to drive. When they attack a tank, the tribesmen first kill off the accompanying infantrymen, then often set it afire with flaming corn stalks...
...together on various projects-e.g., antitank rockets developed at the French ballistic proving grounds at St. Louis, a big military transport plane designed to operate off short runways, a French-designed heavy helicopter. But the most important joint project in the works was the Europa Panzer, a medium tank; when first conceived, the idea was that it would replace the West German Bundeswehr's 2,000 out-of-date U.S. M-47s and M-48s, give the French army a fast, quick-firing, maneuverable weapon...
Last week Bonn's new Defense Minister Kai-Uwe von Hassel officially scrapped the Europa Panzer idea, declared that West Germany would produce a flashy new tank of its own. French defense officials had gotten word of the decision long before their Charles de Gaulle had signed his new pact with Bonn. But the canceled deal was bound to set minds on both sides of the Rhine wondering just how useful their treaty really...
...born under the meticulous scalpel of Dr. Robert E. Gross in 1938, Dr. William F. Bernhard wanted to try the Boerema technique. First he went to Newport to ask the Navy for an old compression chamber. The Navy wasted no time telling him to go home: just the tank he wanted had been gathering dust since 1934 in a Harvard lab, only a few yards from Children's Hospital...
...proclaim "livable now! . . . not raw, undeveloped, inaccessible land." But, said Talley, Lake Mead is some 50 miles away. And at the property, "there are absolutely no utilities available. Six miles from the nearest lot and ten to twelve miles from the principal part of the subdivision is a tank-operated machine where one can deposit a quarter and water runs out of an old innertube. At the same distance away are a telephone line and power line running down the highway." Scratches bulldozed in the desert are given glamorous names such as Riverside Drive. And in the center of this...