Word: tarmac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another throng of the Queen's subjects poured onto the tarmac of Salisbury Airport last week, but there were no leaders of society among them. For they were black, and had straggled in from the African townships of Harare and Highfield outside the city. They crowded onto balconies, perched in jacaranda trees, and clung to flagpoles around the airport building. More than 6,000 of them were squeezed in alight mass, hemmed in on one side by a 12-ft. wire fence, on the other by a cordon of police and their dogs. When the R.A.F. Comet whistled...
Will of the Majority. Last February, 400 officers stood on the Maiquetia airport tarmac to see Betancourt off on a trip to visit President Kennedy in Washington. Ignoring protocol, Betancourt shook hands with one and all. On his return, he told 1,200 officers all about the trip. Last month, when Castroite terrorists tried to wreck the presidential election, Defense Minister General Antonio Briceño Linares went on radio and TV with an election-eve speech: "There will be no disorder, there will be no civil war. Only the will of the majority of Venezuelans will exist...
...Queen's arrival, cops kept back the crowds by charging enthusiastically with night sticks and by driving their motorcycles directly at them. On the airport tarmac sat 100 tribal chiefs surrounded by flunkies who held giant velvet umbrellas over them. Each chief was accompanied by a "linguist" (chiefs never speak directly to anyone save the linguists, who pass on the message) and by a small boy, who functions as the soul of the chief. (In the past, the boys were killed when the chief died...
...tons of gear. Last week Ramey roared with a take-off or landing every 3¼ minutes (Berlin airlift average: one every three minutes). Up to 101 planes were in the air at a time, but not more than eight to ten transports rested on Ramey's tarmac because of the speed with which Army men (supervised by veteran MATS loadmasters) loaded and unloaded. In case of war, the MATS fleet would probably require two weeks to airlift one fully equipped division to a distant point...