Word: captains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...winter of 1613 as the first white inhabitants of Manhattan. In the U.S. for ten days, the princess would lunch with President Eisenhower in Washington, but would spend much of her time in the Hudson River Valley, helping to commemorate the 350th anniversary of its exploration by the Dutch captain of The Half Moon...
...year-old Brigadier General Amkha Soukhavong, the Laotian army's regional commander, sat on the porch of his headquarters in Samneua City, peeling litchi nuts and staring morosely at the mildewed Roman Catholic church across the street. For French-trained General Amkha, who still holds the rank of captain in the French army, it was a nightmare war. What news of the front he could get came from runners, a handful of Red prisoners and an endless stream of refugees :women with babies, men burdened with mattresses and sewing machines, a ten-year-old boy toting a submachine...
...Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty, went to court in Alexandria. Va., walked out a U.S. citizen. Daughter of a Swedish minister, she arrived in the U.S. in 1951, went to work as a governess in the home of a Swedish U.N. delegate, married Marine Lieut, (now Captain; Roger Carl Hagerty in 1955, is the mother of Jim Hagerty's two grandchildren...
...seven research vessels that tied up at Manhattan piers, the most romantic was the Calypso of France, commanded by handsome Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau, famed underwater explorer and author of The Silent World. Displayed on her deck were weird bits of equipment: submarine scooters, deep-sea motion-picture-taking devices called "halibuts," and an anti-shark cage. In her hold was a Diving Saucer, a two-man submarine designed to follow the ocean bottom down...
...novel. The heroine worships it, the hero dies in it, and the plain villagers are bounded by it as their neighbors are bounded by olive groves. The young men may lust for Smaragthi. but they lust even more for the sea and the role of boat's captain...