Word: bergstrom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week's end the President headed for the L.B.J. Ranch with Humphrey, got in some handshaking at the Bergstrom Air Force Base near Austin, Texas, was guest of honor at a birthday barbecue for 3,000 at nearby Stonewall. He also aimed to do some campaign strategy-planning with Hubert "in the shade of the live oaks on the banks of the Pedernales...
Slowly the giant jet taxied into the darkness beyond the floodlit operations building at Bergstrom Air Force Base, Texas. At the edge of a runway it paused, shuddered with the full power of its four jets, then roared into the starry Texas sky to begin a nonstop, 5,600-mile hop to West Germany. Thus, one balmy night last week, "Operation Big Lift" got under...
...night, a fleet of 70 chartered buses shuttled the G.I.s across the flat, dusty Texas plains to four nearby air-bases. So tight was the schedule they followed that on the 75-minute trip from Fort Hood to Bergstrom, precisely eleven minutes were allowed for stop lights. In groups of 70 or 80, perspiring soldiers in itchy o.d.s tramped up the ramps; inside the windowless cargo planes the temperature hit 110°, and the men shucked shirts and even T shirts until they were airborne and began cooling...