Word: wings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though it was conceived as the world's most sophisticated combat aircraft, the F-lll has flunked many of its courses-mostly in political science. Last week Congress gave the swing-wing fighter-bomber its worst report card yet. A House-Senate Conference Committee recommended that the Navy model, the F-111B, not go into production until the plane shows beyond doubt that it can operate efficiently from aircraft carriers...
...effects of inflation have seriously impeded the development of physical facilities for the nation's higher education. Sorely needed student housing at Saigon and a wing of the medical faculty at Hue have stood since 1964 and 1965 in half-finished condition, at the point where money allocated for their construction...
...full colonel and the U.S. Air Force's hottest Negro combat pilot. "That s.o.b. is leading too many kids astray. Under the guise of civil rights, some people set the racial effort back 100 years." James is vice commander of the 8th Tactical Fighter Wing based in Thailand, and already has 56 sweeps over North Viet Nam under his belt. Until it was adopted by Black Power activists, a black panther was his personal trademark...
...Eugene Groves, president of the National Student Association, said yesterday that his organization had received more than $3.3 million from 1952 to February, 1967, as an "intelligence and operation wing" for the Central Intelligence Agency...
...back with their sole remaining carrier, the Hiryu. Diving through intense U.S. fire, the Japanese bombers and torpedo planes, far superior to then-existing American models, slammed three bombs through the carrier Yorktown. Among the casualties was Seaman George Weise, who was blown so high that he hit the wing of a passing plane-and survived...