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...aircraft ever assembled in one place in the history of the world. Some of the 6,000 vehicles are arrayed in neat rows that seem to curve off to the horizon; others swarm and cluster like a plague of monstrous locusts. Spread over 2,500 acres is an air armada that seems big enough to start World War III or, judging by the vintage of some of the craft, to replay World War II or any lesser conflict of the intervening years. Phalanxes of helicopters, their windows painted over, large numbers on their blunt noses, bear an eerie resemblance...
...Harvard swimming armada will sail up Narraganset Bay to Providence on Saturday for an aquatic attack on Brown scheduled to begin about...
...starting time drew near, the fleet began to swell. The sails filled the horizen like an invading armada preparing a disorganized attack on the enemy. The two contestants paced back and forth by the committee boat waiting for the Olympic course to be posted, as the fleet of Coast Guard cutters and patrol boats attempted to beat back the invading armada...
Borrowed Cassock. By midmorning the paratroopers had been reinforced by a naval armada. Protective Turkish destroyers hovered off Kyrenia harbor on the northern coast, and infantrymen were helicoptered ashore and frogmen swam in. Soon battles raged throughout the island, particularly around Nicosia and its vital airport...
...this week's inauguration ceremony at the Elysée. Male guests were asked to leave their striped pants at home and come in ordinary business suits. Giscard, who will be wearing a suit instead of the traditional white tie and tails, planned to forsake the usual armada of limousines and motorcycles and arrive at the palace on foot. There he would review not the silver-helmeted Garde Républicaine but a unit of the First Army's Second Dragoon Regiment, in which he served as a tank gunner during World War II. When he later makes...