Word: transport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scores of Americans) who live in his country, engineering dams and power projects, running factories and keeping trade channels open. Despite the horrors of the past, there are now 60,000 Belgians spread throughout the Congo (which once had 90,000), and the nation's industries, commerce and transport systems could not work without them. Last week the Congo's President Joseph Ka-savubu went out of his way to assure "all foreigners living in the Congo" that "this is their country; they have their investments here...
...longer journeys, Bendix and Boeing (with $800,000 in Government contracts) and Northrop (on its own) have designed balloon-wheeled mobile laboratories that can transport two men 250 miles. General Dynamics is working on a moon train made up of two-wheeled modules that could be linked together to form units of almost any length. General Motors and Bendix have been given about $400,000 each to build mockups of lunar vehicles. For fast hops-and possibly for emergency rescues-later explorers may have a "moon plane," a two-man flying platform with a range of 30 miles; the Government...
...alternative to rewriting the Warsaw Convention, the U.S. proposes that the liability limit be raised temporarily to $75,000, eventually to a permanent ceiling of $100,000. Seeking a compromise, the International Air Transport Association is polling members who fly into the U.S. on whether they are willing to raise the liability limit to $50,000; early returns indicate that they are. In practice, the final sums won by the heirs of crash victims might well be less than that. Court settlements of crash claims against domestic U.S. airlines, to which the Warsaw Convention does not apply, have averaged...
...totally dependent on Rhodesian railroads for an outlet to the sea, on power from Rhodesia's mighty Kariba Dam, and on coal from the Rhodesian mines at Wankie. In the face of economic sanctions, in which Zambia would definitely take part, the white Rhodesians would promptly cut off transport, power and coal and plunge Zambia into economic chaos and possible racial strife...
...Gadgetry. Also at work for the U.S. in Viet Nam is an array of ingenious gadgetry that smacks of baling wire-and of Buck Rogers. Puff the Magic Dragon is an old C-47 transport rigged with three 7.62 Gatling-type guns -each a fascine of six machine-gun barrels. In the time it takes to say "puff," the Dragon can spit 300 bullets at Viet Cong on the ground. "It's a solid bar of fire," explains a U.S. officer, "and the noise is a terrible roar." The Lightning Bug is a UH-1B helicopter fitted with seven...