Word: united
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next day, as the march continued, Rogers tagged at the heels of the Vietnamese commander. Finally the unit ran into Viet Cong fire while moving along a river bank. Then Rogers' counterpart turned to him with a question: "What about some air?" Rogers agreed, and while his counterpart radioed for Vietnamese-flown Skyraiders, Rogers called in American-flown helicopters. "Then," recalls Rogers, "I asked the commander which he wanted to carry out the strike. He said both, and I had to explain that you couldn't have Skyraiders and choppers going in over the target at the same...
Last week Rogers was in action with his Vietnamese unit near Danang. But he will soon be going home to Sumneytown, Pa., and he will be sorry to leave. "These Vietnamese are brave people," he says. "You go out on operation and - well - maybe things aren't done quite the way you want them to be. But then, in the middle of a battle, one of these little characters comes grinning up to you and hands you a hot cup of coffee...
...group had the look of a decontamination unit mopping up after an atomic explosion. Stumbling down the street, interfering with traffic, all jabbering at once, arms flailing in all directions, was a tangle of men loaded down with electronic equipment. But the only explosive item in sight was Harry Truman, out for a morning stroll while visiting Manhattan. The city's TV newsmen were on hand, milking him for every jaunty, testy word as they pursued him for 20 minutes from his hotel at Madison and 76th, over to Fifth Avenue, up a few blocks and then back again...
...search began for subtler ways to control an AMU (Astronaut Maneuvering Unit). Some of them, such as motions of the leg, feet, head or torso, were quickly rejected by Honeywell engineers as too difficult for an astronaut floating in a clumsy space suit. Somewhat more attractive was control by the astronaut's eye movements. A photocell watching the position of the eyeball could steer the astronaut to any target at which he looked steadily. But such control would not be enough. The astronaut would sometimes want to move backwards, and in any case he must always have his eyes...
...this method proved a deadend. The volunteers had neither the time nor the experience to transform a stop-sign protest into full-fledged organization on each street. And each block remained a separate unit, rather than fusing into a larger movement...