Word: transportation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jamaica shorts and Capri pants-but their Air Commando husbands, togged out in green fatigues and ANZAC-style campaign hats, looked like something out of a World War II movie. Some of the men stood with their families alongside a flight ramp; others huddled near a waiting Military Air Transport Service C-118. Then, with the call of the roll, the 53 men went one by one into the big transport. It swung around, taxied to the runway, and took off for the first leg of an 11,700-mile flight to South Viet Nam-where...
Leaders of these two common markets talk grandly of forming a single black African market in the future. But to create a working common market takes more than a customs union: coordination of fiscal, agricultural and transport policy is also necessary-and so far, the newly independent nations of Africa show scant readiness to surrender any sovereignty...
...moderation is taking shape. Foreign ministers of 19 African nations* met in Lagos, Nigeria, last week to approve the charter of the Organization of African and Malagasy States, which is dedicated not to revolution and fiery boasting but to the peaceful settlement of disputes, economic growth, improvement of education, transport and health...
...first arrivals at Plaine des Jarres airport were Red Prince Souphanouvong and his halfbrother, Neutralist Prince Souvanna Phouma, who traveled from their nearby headquarters aboard a Soviet-made Hound helicopter. Twenty minutes later a transport from Vientiane touched down, and out stepped anti-Communist Prince Boun Oum and his obdurate Defense Minister, General Phoumi Nosavan. Members of the three delegations crowded into a small, tin-roofed army club raised on stilts above the ground...
Sinking ever deeper into the red as more and more transatlantic passengers switched to planes, Britain's famed old Cunard line two years ago decided to take to the air itself. With blessing of the British government's Air Transport Licensing Board, Cunard bought up the small Bermuda-Nassau-England Eagle Airways, renamed it Cunard Eagle, ordered itself some expensive jets and pre pared to fly as well as sail the Atlantic. At that point, another agency of the British government objected. Air Minister Peter Thorneycroft vetoed the idea on the ground that the government-owned British Overseas...