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...joint air, sea and land maneuver, Carib-Ex pulled together 17,000 men, 200 planes and 30 ships, making it the biggest U.S. military show in Latin America since the 1930s. As the landing force knifed inland, a swarm of helicopters deposited another Marine assault force near the vital Gatun Locks. Two days later 1,000 paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division floated down to take strategic ground on the Pacific side of the Isthmus...
...Then from along the beach below, the shriek of jet planes and blast of simulated atomic bombs drowned out the music. As the planes carried out their make-believe destruction, nine waves of landing craft chugged toward the beach, bringing 3,500 U.S. Marines. Operation Carib-Ex was under...
...training maneuver. Carib-Ex's theoretical goal was to drive an aggressor force out of the Canal Zone. But the show's main purpose was to build good will by impressing the Latin generals with the quick punch that the U.S. could bring to their .aid in the event of real aggression anywhere in the hemisphere. Mindful of this role, the U.S. extended full military honors to the visitors, and Admiral Arthur Radford, Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, flew down to play host...
TRAILER FERRY service to Europe is starting with shipment of 97 loaded truck-trailers from Brooklyn to France. TMT Trailer Ferry, Inc. is chartering 475-ft. transatlantic ferry Carib Queen to Army, expects to begin commercial trips by March. Company figures roll-on, roll-off shipments will cut shipping time by two-thirds, trim packaging and handling costs...
...roamed the carnival-crowded streets of Port-of-Spain to hear such exotic instruments as steel drums, bongos and bamboo tamboo. In a hidden grove of palms, he even heard a bootleg concert of the long-banned jungle drums. One night at Port-of-Spain's Little Carib Theater the island's wild and inexorable rhythms got to Harman. Like everybody else, he began to do the jump-up. "Trinidad's music," he says, "is extraverted stuff that knocks you off your pins. It makes you jump up; mine-well, you just sit down...