Word: train
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were the embattled people of South Viet Nam forgotten. YES ACTT (Youth Expresses Support Through America's Christmas Trains and Trucks), a nationwide effort sponsored by the Junior Chambers of Commerce, the Young Democrats and the Young Republicans to send them $100 million worth of food, clothing, medicine and school supplies, was more than halfway toward its goal last week as a California-bound train left Washington to pick up 100 boxcars of goods across the country...
...exquisite teamwork between the cowpoke and his mount (Will Rogers once remarked that a good roper owes 75% of his success to his horse). Rodeo ropers pay as much as $5,000 for a quarterhorse, and most of them-like matadors-maintain practice rings of their own, where they train their mounts for months to anticipate each move of a zigzagging calf, to stop instantly ("sticking 'em into the ground," in rodeo talk) at the precise moment the lariat settles around the Brangus' neck...
...distinction, the war in South Viet Nam is fundamentally a battle for terrain, a foot-slogging soldier's war. To replace and augment the men in combat, the draft call-mostly for the Army-has reached 40,200 a month,* twelve times the level of August 1964. To train the ever-swelling flood of recruits, the Army is expanding half a dozen U.S. bases. To supply its fighting men, the Pentagon has stepped up its shopping for almost every conceivable commodity from beans to bazookas, reopened defense plants that have lain idle for a decade, rushed in scarce equipment...
Nuclear sharing with West Germany began in 1958, when the Atomic Energy Act was amended to allow the U.S. to provide nuclear armament and information to NATO allies. Officials told Congress that the purpose of the program was to enable our allies to equip planes and train crews; they promised that the warheads would be kept in separate stockpiles under American lock and key and would be turned over to the Allies only in case of attack. And yet, only a few months after the missles arrived, the Defense Department authorized Germany to load them on missiles and planes...
Because doctors were anxious to preserve absolute calm around their patient, Ike's railroad arrival was accomplished under maximum security. Troops with fixed bayonets were stationed at 20-yard intervals along the length of the train to keep spectators away as he was carried to an ambulance. Outside the station a helicopter, heavily insulated against the roar of its rotors, picked up the former President and in eleven minutes deposited him at the hospital twelve miles away. When he got to Walter Reed, Ike said he was "feeling fine," later in the week had a Thanksgiving dinner with...