Word: squadrons
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Federal Express invented the present overnight delivery system. Both Emery and Airborne for decades had shipped freight on commercial airliners. But Frederick Smith, 40, dreamed up the idea of combining a squadron of planes with a fleet of delivery vans. As legend has it, Smith first proposed the plan in a 1965 term paper that earned him a C in an economics course at Yale. After two tours in Viet Nam, one as a Marine pilot, Smith decided to use a $10 million inheritance to try out his idea, and founded Federal...
When the Navy went looking for new aircraft for its "Aggressor Squadron," the search became bogged down by the time-consuming complexities of competitive bidding. The Navy's needs were special: the Aggressor unit employs simulated Soviet planes to train U.S. pilots in aerial warfare. Last week the Navy solved its problem, agreeing to lease twelve Kfir-Ci warplanes from Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) for 3½ years. The Kfir is said to be superior in speed and maneuverability to the Soviet MiG-21 fighter jets...
Weissman has led Dartmouth in rushing for the past two seasons and was second in receiving a year ago. He'll be backed up with a squadron of solid runners, including Lorenzo Chambers and Bill Daly, Rich Lena will have to be replaced at fullback...
...that Cubans are in charge and that they are working round the clock to finish the main strip by this fall. Washington fears that the field will be used for a shipment of Czechoslovak-made L-39 fighters that may be en route from Eastern Europe, or by a squadron of Soviet MiG-23s reportedly stationed in Cuba, but the Sandinistas deny it. All the U.S. and Nicaragua seem to agree on is that, at some 4,400 yds., Punta Huete will have the longest runway in Central America...
R.A.F. Veteran Derek Robinson, however, provides no propaganda romance. Within a year, the flyers' innocence has crashed in flames. By September 1940, most of Hornet squadron are dead, burned out or mad. Christopher Hart III, an egalitarian American volunteer, tells them, "Up there the world is divided into bastards and suckers. Make your choice." They do, and turn from chivalrous adolescents into cynical hawks. After flying hundreds of missions in a month, a dazed pilot hears of Churchill's famous R.A.F. speech: "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many...