Word: transport
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Crewcut, clear-eyed and firm of jaw, Colonel Gerald V. Kehrli had been a model Air Force officer for 28 years. In May 1970, he took command of a less-than-spirited air transport squadron at Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airbase, and before long the unit was back at a peak of morale. "It was guys like Colonel Kehrli who gave you that go-go spirit," one of his former officers said last week. "He was the kind of man you really wanted to work...
...helicopter has been doing service in Viet Nam since 1962, at first mostly to transport troops. As the Army realized the necessity for rapid mobility in a guerrilla war, commanders began urging Washington to free them from what they called "the tyranny of the terrain." There are now 3,500 helicopters, worth nearly $1 billion, in Viet Nam. With the arrival of the high-speed, heavily armed Cobra in 1967, the ships became flying combat-assault platforms for entire brigades in mass lift operations. More than any other weapon, they enabled the U.S. to fight the guerrillas' kind...
...Rolls-Royce Ltd. has become one of Britain's brightest industrial ornaments by making the most luxurious cars in the world, as well as engines for the Concorde supersonic jet, nearly every plane in the Royal Air Force, and rocket and diesel motors for road, rail and water transport in more than 100 countries. Last week those two storied giants threatened to push each other into a spectacular transatlantic financial collapse. Their plight was the result of inflation, management errors, soaring ambitions that were frustrated and the difficulties of taming a technology that is growing increasingly complex and costly...
...West decades ago, when oil was not as much in demand as it is today. They note with irritation that, while a barrel of crude in Western Europe yields an average of $8 in the marketplace, they get only about $1 out of it. The rest goes into production, transport, refining and marketing costs ($3), oil-company profits (50?) and taxes collected by the consuming countries ($3.50). Even more infuriating to the predominantly Arab group is that the oil-consuming governments of the West have largely favored the Israeli cause...
...means of transport ever suffered a worse drubbing than the motorcycle? In the 17 years since Stanley Kramer put Marlon Brando astride a Triumph in The Wild One, big bikes and those who ride them have been made into apocalyptic images of aggression and revolt -Greasy Rider on an iron horse with 74-cu.-in. lungs and ape-hanger bars, booming down the freeway to rape John Doe's daughter behind the white clapboard bank: swastikas, burnt rubber, crab lice and filthy denim. It has long been obvious that the bike was heir to the cowboy's horse...