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...Constitution ("... and many an eye has danced to see/That banner in the sky"), three times victorious over proud British frigates. Of the Olympia leading Commodore Dewey's fleet to the liberation of the Philippines, of the Yorktown and the Lexington grievously damaged as they blocked the Japanese imperial armada at the Battle of the Coral...
What makes the question of carrier vulnerability extremely pressing is the growing strength of the Soviet fleet. Today it officially numbers 2,410 ships. About 1,500 of these are small and auxiliary craft, but the rest form a powerful armada: 233 surface warships, including 37 cruisers, 90 destroyers and 105 frigates, plus 260 attack submarines. In addition, some 400 long-range bombers, including the new Backfire, are based around the rim of the U.S.S.R., from where they can strike targets...
When we talk about fun and gusto, we mean to talk about baseball. Tomorrow at 3 p.m. the Crimson will be facing an armada of shipheads from Navy. After they withstand that barge the batmen are going to face against Princeton Saturday. The Tigers are in here in a big way--like twins. The first game will start...
...march of events and caused some mighty cataclysms. Since Columbus did not know where he was going or where he had arrived when he got there, the winds truly deserve nearly as much credit as he for the discovery of America. Ugly westerlies helped turn the 1588 Spanish Armada away from England in a limping panic. Napoleon was done in twice by weather: once by the snow and cold that forced his fearful retreat from Moscow, later by the rain that bedeviled him at Waterloo and caused Victor Hugo to write: "A few drops of water ... an unseasonable cloud crossing...
...community dances, concerts and other parties. The town's weekly newspaper editorialized: "This is the summer to find out what a home town is all about." Last year's tall ships are scattered around the world now, but on the weekend of the Fourth, New York will have an armada of smaller vessels parading up the Hudson from the harbor...