Word: wade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...major in the Alabama Air National Guard and a World War II veteran, with more than 12,000 flying hours. Thomas Willard Ray, 30, was a former Air Force staff sergeant. Leo Baker, 35, had been an Air Force tech sergeant and a flight engineer for Hayes. Wade Carroll Gray, 38, had been a Hayes test pilot...
...days after the invasion fiasco, Carlson appeared in Birmingham and informed the airmen's wives that their husbands were lost and presumed dead. He provided few other details. "I had no idea my husband was even down there," recalls Mrs. Wade Gray. "I was looking for him to come home any day." Adding to the Administration cover-up try was Attorney General Robert Kennedy, who last January flatly denied that any Americans had been killed in the Bay of Pigs invasion. Hearing that, Shamburger's mother wrote President Kennedy: "If no Americans were involved, where...
...McNamara has presided over a fundamental reorganization of the armed services to increase efficiency and save money. Where top Pentagon officials formerly had to wade through as many as eleven separate-and often conflicting-intelligence reports from the services daily, they now get a single, four-page summary from the unified Defense Intelligence Agency. Millions of dollars have been saved on items ranging from belt buckles to bloomers by the creation of a single Defense Supply Agency. Instead of the charming, old-fashioned practice of trying to cut up the defense budget pie more or less equally among the services...
Frustrated Gropos. Two weeks ago, the first four refugees went through to freedom. Owing to a steady seepage from underground springs, the last of the 59 to cross had to wade through water up to their armpits. When pumps could not cope with the flood, the tunnel was regretfully closed, and East Germans were publicly warned to avoid its use. Lamented one student-worker: "It was the most beautiful tunnel there ever was." Other Western groups are hard at work on four other tunnels in the same general area, but some refugees would not wait: in a single night, eleven...
...years ago, a question was asked in all seriousness in South Africa's Parliament in Cape Town: Does apartheid on the beaches extend to the high-tide or low-tide mark? Aghast, M.P.s finally concluded that in either case Africans could wade across from black beaches into white water, spoiling it for white swimmers. The problem was finally solved by taking a precedent from international conventions; apartheid on the beaches was extended out to the three-mile limit...