Word: aboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...west of the beach, aboard the mighty 60,000-ton supercarrier Saratoga, pride of the Sixth Fleet, the Navy's job for the day was to pound Douglas AD Skyraider bombers and Chance Vought F8U1 Crusader fighters out of steam catapults into a Mediterranean haze amid jet engine roars, catapult cracks, clouds of hissing white steam. The mission: to show the silver of Navy air power over Lebanon. But Saratoga's jet pilots, like all Navy pilots off Lebanon, got word to steer clear of a certain point just south of the predominantly Moslem port of Tripoli. Reason...
Just before the end of World War I. Ensign Holloway reported for duty aboard the destroyer Monaghan, operating out of Brest, France. His first memorable contribution to the war effort: his first show of the Holloway style. "They never told me," he said, "about the lack of space on destroyers. My baggage filled the whole wardroom. I was a very unpopular young officer for that." And through steady performance aboard destroyers, cruisers and battleships and as a staff flag lieutenant in the Navy's lean, between-the-wars years-for eleven years, from 1922 to 1933, he stayed...
...then spend the evening at the hospital with her before taking a long walk home, as he put it, "to become healthfully fatigued and then to sleep." In October 1956 Jean Holloway died. Their son, Commander James L. Holloway III, Annapolis '42, is now commanding a jet squadron aboard the attack carrier Essex in the Sixth Fleet off Lebanon...
Desperate Hours. Since the landings, Admiral Holloway's diplomatic-military talents have been kept minute-to-minute busy, put to many a test. He gets up aboard his electronics-crammed command ship Taconic about 6 a.m., keeps on the move until past midnight, has found spare time only to write four letters to London to his second wife-last January he married Josephine Kenney, the widow of a naval officer who had served with him in BuPers-and to drop down from admiral's country to see an occasional shipboard movie. Title of one movie: The Desperate Hours...
...sealed borders. The man who reached Baghdad first was no old Middle East hand, but the A.P.'s blond, 34-year-old Stan Carter, assigned to the Beirut bureau only last month. Carter flew into neighboring Syria and began to importune Iraqi officials, finally wangled his way aboard an Iraqi military plane and landed in Baghdad some 60 hours before any competitor showed...