Word: transport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force last week closed its books on the case of the Bumping Colonel and the Angry General. The colonel: Lieut. Colonel Charles Platt Jr., who bulldozed his way onto a Military Air Transport Service plane in Japan last month, unseating half a dozen Stateside-bound G.I.s. The general: Lieut. General Robert Whitney Burns, boss of U.S. military forces in Japan, who ordered the plane to return to its base and personally drove over to Tokyo's Tachikawa Airport to put the G.I.s back in their seats and to chew out Colonel Platt (TIME, April 13). As punishment for having...
Tibetan aides gave further details of the flight from Lhasa. As relations with Red China worsened, food stocks were prepared for a quick journey, and part of the fabulous Potala treasure was crated for mountain transport. On the morning of March 17, as tension rose in Lhasa, officials filtered from the palace in small groups, ostensibly to visit other monasteries. That night, dressed in the robe of a poor monk and without his customary glasses, the Dalai Lama left the palace as if taking a stroll, but he was shadowed by bodyguards. His mother and brother departed even earlier...
More than three years ago American foreign-aid officials set about modernizing the transport system in struggling little Laos, a pastoral nation bordered by Red China and Communist North Viet Nam. Motives were high and the task seemed simple, but within months the project was bogged down in a mass of bribes, kickbacks and plain confusion...
...also developed in testimony that McNamara and another former ICA official, William E. Kirby, accepted substantial favors in 1957 from a Hong Kong transportation firm that got a $275,000 contract to supply ferryboats for a transport system across the Mekong River, between Thailand and Laos. Kirby later quit ICA and took a job with the company. Until Congress took notice, ICA headquarters in Washington seemed almost indifferent to the shenanigans in Laos, and slow to investigate thoroughly. Representative Porter Hardy Jr. of Virginia, chairman of the subcommittee, last week indignantly suggested abolition of ICA altogether, and a fresh start...
Chain Reaction. In Bari, Italy, a passing transport plane accidentally dropped a mile of steel links on Giuseppe Patrono's olive orchard, started rumors of a Martian invasion...