Word: armada
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Died. Fleet Admiral Chester William Nimitz, 80, who led history's greatest armada to victory in the Pacific; of pneumonia; on Yerba Buena Island, in San Francisco Bay (see THE NATION...
...Western Europe. Hordes of Europeans with hard money in their pockets began pouring southward across the Pyrenees, lured by cheap prices, fiestas and bullfighting, by clear skies and endless beaches, by the ancient exotic attraction of a semi-Arab land that had dropped out of Europe with the Spanish Armada...
Cutting the Lines. Though primarily for use in the South, there is nothing to prevent the spreading southern-based armada from joining on occasion its sister fleet of U.S. planes based on carriers and in Thailand in the daily, relentless pounding of North Viet Nam. Indeed, as Hanoi increasingly steps up the tempo of fighting in the South, there is likely to be increased argument for U.S. bombing of the industrial complex around Hanoi and the port of Haiphong...
...throw books of poetry to him and propose marriage in dozens of letters each week. Fan clubs pay tribute to him throughout Western Europe. He has starred in two hit movies, one of them about himself, and earned more money ($10 million) than it cost to build the Spanish Armada. In July, he became the fourth matador in this century to be allowed to spare the life of his bull. In August, he became the first in history to fight 31 corridas in one month. And, barring illness or injury, by this time next month the mop-haired...
...Viet Nam's will-o'-the-wisp war is mobility. As guerrillas, the Viet Cong have naturally used it to the best advantage so far, slipping stealthily through swamps and jungles to attack, then disappear. But thanks to the growing armada of troop-carrying transports and helicopters in Viet Nam, the U.S. has developed its own brand of mobility. Last week, despite shifting veils of monsoon rain and cloud, that mobility was being used to good effect. Siege & Spider Holes. First demonstration came in the battle for Route 19, an affair that at first glance seemed doomed...