Word: troop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Force. Air Commandos, proud of their Anzac-style hats, live in a strange world of seemingly obsolete aircraft: the B-26 bomber, T-28 trainer, slow C46 and C-47 cargo-troop planes. Instead of supersonic jets, they have the U-10 monoplane, which can slow to 30 m.p.h. without stalling, is ideal for dropping leaflets or broadcasting by loudspeaker to villagers. Says one Commando officer: "A loudspeaker is a lot cheaper than...
...night-return chute. Facilities at Widener for book returns after closing time, or a Widener-Lamont accord should not be difficult to arrange. Either would be appreciated by those Harvard undergraduates who have not yet acquired the discipline and commitment of the 'Cliffies and graduate students, who reputedly troop dutifully into Widener every weekday and Saturday morning...
...believed, the West had pulled off a spectacular coup in the cold war struggle for intelligence secrets. For 18 straight months, from April 1961 until last October, Penkovsky had funneled to Wynne and other couriers a stream of nearly 5,000 photographs of secret Soviet data on missile developments, troop movements, economic and political inside stuff from the Communist Party Central Committee itself. Just a Chauffeur. It began in November 1960. when Penkovsky got fed up with his Moscow job. Seeking "the easy life," Penkovsky said he sent a letter to the U.S. embassy in Moscow, offering his services...
...Lumbering low over Stone Age villages and thick jungles, troop-carrying helicopters swarmed across the wild central highlands of Viet Nam last week. On the ground, 10,000 South Vietnamese infantrymen and marines spread out over a vast, inhospitable sector south of Tamky where no government troops had set foot since 1938. In one of the biggest drives against the Communist Viet Cong since the guerrilla war broke out in 1959, South Viet Nam's government hoped to flush six Red battalions and a headquarters company from its longtime stronghold in the mountains. Main object of the month-long...
...compressor and then rush on to whirl another turbine that drives a shaft. Turbines in their simplest form have major disadvantages, but where these are not of prime importance, they are already hard at work. They run standby generators in telephone exchanges, drive an Army 13-car overland troop-supply train and power Navy landing craft, Marine hydrofoil boats and Air Force helicopters...