Word: bases
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Burke accepted the idea, got news of the fifth cable break, and checked out his plan with Defense Secretary Neil McElroy, who notified the White House. Minutes later, the order went from Burke to Norfolk, headquarters of Admiral Jerauld Wright's Atlantic Fleet. Norfolk messaged the U.S. Naval Base at Argentia, Newfoundland, which in turn radioed Lieut. Commander Ernest Korte, skipper of a converted destroyer escort, the radar picket ship U.S.S. Roy 0. Hale, outward bound on a routine month-long sea patrol. Hale immediately turned and steamed to the point where a twin-engined Navy P2V Neptune...
...group will continue the work of a similar expedition which last summer uncovered two "occupation levels" of Stone Age hunters who inhabited the region 20 and 22 thousand years ago respectively, Movius estimates that it will take five or six more summers to reach the base of the remaining 30 feet of successive occupations...
...there were words to eat, even if the chewing noises could not be heard in the general congratulations. Five years ago, when Britain abandoned its Suez base and retreated to Cyprus, a Tory minister assured everyone that Cyprus would "never" be released to independence. The Conservatives had also argued in the past that Greece and Turkey should have no say in the solution of a problem that, after all, concerned a British crown colony. Yet here were the British accepting the terms of a settlement handed down by the Greeks and Turks, ending British rule in a British colony...
...Hesperia development at the foot of the San Bernardino Mountains, the population grew from about 700 in 1954 to more than 4,000 now. Acre lots that sold for as low as $795 four years ago are now worth $6,000. His Edwards Estates at Edwards Air Force Base and Mountain View Estates at Victorville have grown from sandy wastes to thriving communities...
...have spread commotion merely by traveling abroad-from Pocahontas to Henry James's Daisy Miller-must now be added the name of Catherine Fremantle. Strong-souled and sturdily uppered, she is the daughter and soul support of the suet-brained information officer at a U.S. Air Force base in Spain. The trouble is that Catherine's old man has messed things up. To the natives, if a .fish floats dead in the river, it is because the yanquis have irradiated the water supply. If a badly timed flight of B-525 interrupts a bullfight with a moment...