Word: beached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...telephone lines to make untraceable calls. They banked hefty sums of money around New York City under various aliases. In 1954 Abel (cover: "Mark") sent Lieut. Colonel Hayhanen first to Salida, Colo., later to Quincy, Mass, to check construction of the Navy's first atomic-powered cruiser, Long Beach. In the spring of 1955 both Abel and Hayhanen roamed the countryside around Poughkeepsie, N.Y. looking for a suitable short-wave radio site...
Playing Nasser to the Farouk of discredited Teamster President Dave Beck (Hoffa will almost certainly take over the teamster reins at the union's Miami Beach convention next month), Jimmy Hoffa allowed that he is considering a plan to combine all the nation's transport unions (aviation, trucking, shipping, railroading) into one council. Said he: "You can't have a one-city strike any more, or a strike in just one kind of transportation. You have to strike them...
...Navy has authorized one nuclear missile cruiser (the U.S.S. Long Beach). A nuclear carrier is in the works, and five more are contemplated. Nuclear destroyers will be difficult because their reactors will have to be lighter than any known today, but their ultimate success is considered sure. They will stay at sea indefinitely, while conventional types must be refueled every week...
Ingenuous newsmen rushed to tell the world Leona's hoked-up Cinderella story: she had scraped together $45 to buy a gown for the Maryland preliminaries, had come West on a one-way ticket, borrowed a gown for the Long Beach judging. When she won the big prize she was down to her last $2. "I'm not manstruck," she said. "I'm not marrying until I'm 26." And then the roof fell in on Leona Gage: the judges learned that she was married...
Hoping to fly faster than the speed of the earth's rotation (1,080 m.p.h.), U.S. Marine Corps Major John H. Glenn Jr., 36, fell short of his hope, nevertheless last week jockeyed a pencil-nosed, silver-painted Navy F8U1 Crusader jet from Long Beach, Calif, to New York City for a new coast-to-coast record of 3 hr. 23 min. First to span the nation at supersonic speed, Pilot Glenn averaged 726 m.p.h. (or Mach 1.1 at his average flying altitude of 35,000 ft.), cut 21 minutes off the previous record established in March...