Word: aire
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Currently the hottest spot in U.S.diplomacy is a stone-faced building in the heart of busy Belgrade, capital of Tito's Yugoslavia. From its shadowed rooms, lanky, sharp-featured Cavendish Cannon, 54, had done one of the cold war's outstanding jobs. He sniffed trouble in the air before the Tito Cominform split burst into the open, then begged his superiors to give Tito's government the encouragement and limited support it needed to keep the rebellion thriving, without buying Tito's own party line. But Cannon had worked himself into a state of exhaustion...
...another U.N. birthday party last week, a group of less restrained celebrators commented at length, but scarcely said any more. Just four years after the signing of the San Francisco Charter, the U.N.'s General Assembly met in special open-air session at the site of the new U.N. building at the East River foot of Manhattan's 42nd Street, to watch the cornerstone laid for U.N.'s imposing new headquarters. As President Truman arrived at the 42nd Street site, the combined New York Police, Fire & Sanitation Department bands struck up The Sidewalks of New York, better...
...rendezvous for a bombing run on New York City. Minutes later, three radar stations in outlying areas, two manned by Canadians, one by Americans, had picked up the bombers and flashed instructions by radio to eight waiting Canadian Vampire jets and eight U.S. F47 Thunderbolts. "Operation Metropolis," a simulated air attack and defense of New York, was underway...
...first peacetime U.S.-Canadian joint air maneuver, 240 R.C.A.F. reserves worked from a defense control center with the U.S. Air National Guard. Every bomber was intercepted by the defending fighters before it got within range of its target. Limited and simple as the problem was, it demonstrated, said the R.C.A.F., "the ability of the Canadian Air Reservists and United States Air National Guardsmen to integrate forces in the event of an emergency...
...maneuver was one more small piece in the growing pattern of joint defense. Both Washington and Ottawa want a pool of officers and men who know how both services work. Recently Canada's Naval Air Group 18 finished an intensive three-month course at Quonset Point, R.I. With U.S. pilots, they concentrated on detecting and bombing schnorkel submarines. This month, the Canadian destroyer Halda spent two weeks training in Chesapeake Bay, then sailed with a U.S. Navy amphibious force for a practice assault on the coast of Labrador...