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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...down to "2,300 gallons of aviation gasoline and three or four planes fit to fight." From the South China Sea to Formosa he improvised great sea-air sweeps that cost the Japanese "so many ships that I cannot count them." As commander of the big Third Fleet at the Battle of Leyte Gulf, he was the scourge of the Japanese Navy. Toward the end of the war, Halsey took task forces of battleships as well as carriers to bombard the Japanese coast. "I had a tremendous steamroller-I could do anything I damned pleased," he said, but the Navy...
...rank. He said: "Let the younger fellow's take over." and Bull Halsey's officers-Forrest Sherman, Arthur Radford, Mick Carney, Arleigh Burke-did. He put in a stint for International Telephone & Telegraph Corp., launched but lost a fund-raising drive to save his old flagship Big E from the scrap heap. "Remember!" he rasped. "Scrapped ships will not rest peacefully in deep blue waters beside the gallant Lexington, Wasp, Hornet, Houston, Atlanta, and all the brave others. Our Navy must remain strong!" Last week, on Fishers Island in the peaceful grey waters of Long Island Sound, Bull...
...underground workshops, rows of air-conditioned huts, and an airstrip fit for jets. To the south is the emptiness of the Tanezrouft-the "thirst country" of the central Sahara -where France will most likely test its late starter in the atomic race: a model T bomb too big for their airplanes and too crude even to compare with recent generations of U.S., British and Russian nuclear devices. Knowing their first bomb to be primitive, the French are anxious not so much to catch up with other atomic powers overnight as to capture political prestige by becoming Member...
...appointing to his powerful new "inner" Cabinet not a single Communist Party member (TIME, July 20). Last week the Communists, who still claim 1,500,000 members, got another slap. On the very day that their newspaper Harian Rakjat (People's Daily) announced the convening of their big sixth national congress next week, Army Chief of Staff Abdul Haris Nasution ordered that the congress be "postponed indefinitely." It would, he said, only "sharpen political tensions...
...Midwestern victim was only 13 when he broke out with hives while playing basketball. The boy had to give up sports because every time he played he got hives, with swelling around the eyes, in his throat, and sometimes in his hands and feet. Studied at a big university medical center, he was diagnosed as having an "exercise-type urticaria...