Word: wings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some of the aviators were accustomed to a different form of combat. "Man, that's rough flying," said Navy Lieut. Commander Dan Mayers, 32, whose helicopter wing returned recently from Viet Nam. "It's not quite what we're used to." Battling wing ice and frozen gas lines instead of flak, pilots flew more than 1,000 mercy sorties. When an Air Force C-141 dropped 1,300 gal. of fuel oil and a team of paracommandos on Arizona's Tuba City (pop. 2,000), schoolchildren braved 10°-below-zero temperatures-to get the parachutists...
...final by-election vote, a right-wing candidate drained off support from the Christian Democrats and the coalition candidate coasted to victory, leaving Frei with only twelve of the Senate's 45 seats. This week Frei hopes to reassert his authority at a two-day party meeting, but beforehand he suggested the possibility of forming a coalition government with leftist parties. Unless he can somehow regain control of his party, Chile's far-left coalition could well sweep into the presidency in the 1970 elections without any need of Frei's Christian Democrats-if the army does...
...started. What they've got now is ebullience. "The spirit of this club is unbelievable," says Center Phil Esposito, 25, a castoff from the Black Hawks who got his revenge by scoring three goals against his former teammates last week. "We've really caught fire," says Left Wing Johnny Bucyk, 32, a twelve-year veteran who is well on his way to his finest season -with 19 goals and 18 assists so far, making him the No. 3 scorer in the league. Borrowing pro-football lingo, Defenseman Ted Green says that "this year we're blitzing. Last...
Parrot meanwhile, has exchanged places with fellow first-line wing Bob Fred Both are left-hand shots, but Weiland now feels that parrot will be the better of the two on the right because of his buck handling meneverability...
Parrot knotted the game at 1-1 when he deflected in a long shot by Bob Carr at 3:47. Fredo gave Harvard its only lead of the tournament when he faked past a defensemen going down right wing and flipped a backhand past goalie George McPhee...