Word: shortness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...warfare to counter a growing Soviet naval buildup. Army and Air Force men argue that the Marines do nothing that their services could not do, given the proper equipment. On the other hand, Marine planners insist that the Corps is necessary to get the U.S. into hostile territory on short notice, using helicopters if not landing craft. Army men scoff at the idea. But few Army units maintain a Marine-like state of readiness, and none is stationed on ships around the world, ready to move anywhere, and fast. Nor can they be as easily deployed as the Marines...
...Rogers said that the Nixon Administration had "no present plans" to send G.I.s to Laos even if Communist troops threatened to overrun it. Nonetheless, Defense Secretary Melvin Laird indicated that the U.S. would probably continue to bomb the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Cambodia could be a plus -over the short run, at least-provided the situation does not degenerate into anarchy and prompt a panicky Hanoi to mount a full-scale invasion. (Sihanouk was useful in that he kept Cambodia stable. If the new regime swings violently antiCommunist, there could be serious trouble.) Hanoi, too, had a mixed week, with...
...turned out 100 strong to say farewell to Ambassador Sargent Shriver. While Jackie Onassis' appearance at the embassy gala caused little stir, many were surprised to see her husband in tow. Exclaimed one well-endowed young lady after her first encounter with Ari: "My God, he's short! He stares right into the bosom...
...symptoms of the health-care shortage are ever more obvious. For the affluent it becomes harder to get an immediate appointment to see a doctor for anything short of an emergency. For the poor, the hospital emergency room has become a kind of "family doctor." Yet the Federal Government has spent enormous sums on health care. With passage of the Comprehensive Health Planning and Services Act in 1966, federal spending has soared from $5.9 billion to $16.6 billion in fiscal 1969, and the direction is ever upwards...
...miles and then, pulling ahead, suddenly swerves over a crossing just 50 yards ahead. "Come fall," Flaar shouts, "when everybody is going down to the grain elevators, you get lots of guys racing you to a crossing." He tugs on the whistle and sounds a series of short toots and long wails. "That's my hello to an old gentleman in his 80s who lives back there. His relatives say it gives his morale a big boost...