Word: transportation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...twin-engine Caribou Army transport swooped in for a landing at a dirt airstrip 110 miles northwest of Saigon, General Paul Harkins, 59, U.S. military commander in Viet Nam, noticed a small problem. Hey, wait! Look! Too late. And the plane touched down with its landing gear firmly up and locked. Harkins and all aboard emerged unhurt. But definitely unhappy. "That's one hell of a way to come down," roared the general. "Well sir," explained the pilot helpfully, "I forgot to put the wheels down...
...would keep $200,000 for engineering studies and funnel the remaining $150,000 to the School of Public Health, where it would be used for research into the ultimate oceanographic effects of the incinerator and the development of an adequate land-transport system...
...mobile medium-range ballistic missile, whose range would be somewhere between the Army's 400-mile Pershing and the Navy's 2,800-mile Polaris; $29.5 million for the Navy's Intruder attack bomber; and $25 million for the Air Force's C-141 jet transport...
...with Ire land's Frank Aiken, the subject was the Congo. With Brazil's Joao Augusto de Aranjo Castro, the proposal for an atom-free zone in Latin America came up. Rusk said the U.S. would accept such an arrangement if it included Cuba and permitted U.S. transport of nuclear weapons through the Panama Canal...
Five purges have rocked the Czechoslovak Communist Party in less than a year. In the latest, down went two Deputy Premiers, the Ministers of Finance, Food, Transport and Fuel-and Premier Viliam Siroky, 61. Siroky, announced the regime of Red President Antonin Novotny, was guilty of "shortcomings in his work" and "certain mistakes in his past political activity...