Word: thunderous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thursday-night interview show, Host Jovan Sčekic questions government officials with an inquisitorial style reminiscent of the old Mike Wallace; home viewers are invited to phone in sticky questions of their own. Yugoslav audiences, in fact, get plenty of say about programming. At one point after a thunder of complaints, the network uncanceled a show called Dennis the Naughty...
...least you will have a lot of thunder eggs...
...down Ho Chi Minh's domain the attackers ranged, cutting rail lines and roads, taking out trains, trucks and barges, bombing missile sites and antiaircraft batteries. Even by the Jovian standards of Operation Rolling Thunder, the code name for the air war against North Viet Nam, it was a spectacular performance: the most devastating six days...
...running the air war in Viet Nam: General William Wallace Momyer, 51. As commander of the Seventh Air Force and the "coordinating authority" for all air strikes by any service, the trim, soft-spoken Momyer (pronounced Moe-meyer) is the officer responsible not only for rolling the thunder over North Viet Nam but for directing all air operations in South Viet Nam in his role as deputy commander of MACV in Saigon. An Oklahoman who was a World War II fighter ace, Momyer has done so well at his job since he arrived in Viet Nam 18 months ago that...
...orders flashed to the assigned units, whether Air Force planes based in Thailand, Marine planes south of the DMZ or Navy fighter-bombers floating on carriers in the South China Sea. To follow the course of the actual missions, Momyer moves to the plotting room for Operation Rolling Thunder (a twin room plots the tactical air strikes in South Viet Nam). There, sitting in a glass "cab" in the center, he is surrounded by 23 maps and charts that rise seven feet from the floor. Any area Momyer is interested in lights up when he presses on the glass face...