Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ships deployed around the strike carriers Midway and Lexington. Ahead and on the flank prowled four destroyers, listening for sonar pings. Off to port, screened by six more destroyers, was the carrier Princeton, an antisubmarine hunter-killer. Far to the west, 1,000-m.p.h. F8Us swept along the China coast, their sidewinder missiles inscribed with obscene messages to the Communists. "We make lots of big radar blips," said one of Midway's pilots...
...answer was the status of the offshore islands. Given the military standoff on Quemoy, the U.S. now seemed willing to offer as its bargaining counter neutralization of the Nationalist-held islands along the China coast. Though it would not consider turning the islands over to Communist rule, the U.S. was prepared to contemplate an agreement under wliich Mao would commit himself to leave them alone and Chiang would cease to use them as bases...
...fine point to the effect that perhaps they had not really been "good friends" but only "just friends"). When Eddie and Liz were in New York two weeks ago, consolation continued in nightclubs and during a weekend at Grossinger's. After Liz and Eddie finally returned to the coast, there followed a barrage of press releases -soothing, aggressive, clinical, statesmanlike. Liz went into hiding. Eddie and Debbie had a fight within earshot of newsmen ("What's the matter with you, anyway?" cried she). Everybody was retroactively psychoanalyzed-Eddie had never been close to his father, had always been...
Harvard is a dead-beat in the East Coast jazz world. Still, subdued, or even anemic, the crimson jazz scene is far from defunct. Today merely marks a downswing in the whimsical curve that has plotted the campus jazz-wise since long before Count Basie wrote his Harvard Blues back when college life in Cambridge meant big bands and hot sounds. A strange student apathy explains why interested elements make so little noise here today, and what passes for apathy stems less from dislike than from lack of jazz education and organization...
Wilson is not alone in a feeling that Harvard should and will take the lead in any new movement having a certain intellectual character. "The West Coast experiments give modern jazz an intellectual aura, and this should rivet the Ivy Leaguer to the idea of jazz as an art form. What we need first is a different attitude in the Music Department. Then we need a club with a definite idea--a fixed purpose--and some means to endure when the original members leave. Once this attracts the Harvard market things will really move fast...