Word: wheelings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Marine Brigade, aboard a U.S. Navy transport bound for maneuvers off the U.S. West Coast, was ordered to wheel around and return to station in Okinawa. The U.S. lifted 16 helicopters to the Laotian forces, deposited some 400 marines, many of them veterans of the 1958 Lebanon landings, at a base just across the border at Udon, Thailand. Around the clock, U.S. C-130 cargo transports lumbered into Bangkok, disgorging guns and ammunition for transfer to the anti-Communist Laotian troops...
...move. Buoys moored 1,000 ft. away carried transponders to repeat sonar waves sent to them underwater. Pilot Ernie Cantu watched a sonarscope showing the ship's position in relation to the fixed buoys. When Cuss I tended to get out of position, Cantu worked a wheel and a joy stick that changed the speed and direction of the four propellers and so kept the ship accurately over the drill hole. The trick is not easy. "It's like rubbing your belly with one hand in one direction," said Cantu, "and your head with the other hand...
...center of every scene, as the heaviest fish holds the bottom of a net. But he is also a grandly gifted mimic. His dullard eye and dirgelike stroke, as he rides his bike to work, present an ex erience as old as that of the fellah on the water wheel - the quiet desperation of the man who works for someone else. Best of all, he has the rare intensity of talent that seems to transform every atom of Finney into an atom of Arthur...
...COMPACT CAR, described as a "spacious small car," will be marketed next year by France's Citroen in competition with Volkswagen and U.S. compacts. Called the AMI 6, the four-door sedan has a front-mounted, air-cooled engine, front-wheel drive, 62-m.p.h. top speed. U.S. price: under...
...SERVO CORP. OF AMERICA at Hicksville, N.Y., produces infra-red fire-detection systems for aircraft as well as hotbox detectors, which are placed beside rail tracks to sense an overheated wheel bearing as it passes, warn maintenance crews of hotboxes. The Chesapeake & Ohio Ry. installed 17 such detectors for around $400.000. reckons it saves more than that amount each year in labor costs...