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...combat mission without the Japanese government's consent. The only U.S. Navy ship in the area was the nuclear aircraft carrier U.S.S. Enterprise, which was cruising 600 miles from Pueblo. But, said Johnson, since Enterprise was based in Japan, her jets were similarly locked to the flight deck by the status-of-forces agreement...
...appearances. But it did enhance the image of a superindustrious new team. Trouble was, no one had passed the word down. On that first morning after, Nixon found himself pretty much alone in the White House West Wing, except for one personal aide. Henceforth, the crew will be on deck as early as the skipper, although he promised not to require the staff to be on call much after midnight...
...civilian and military personnel lined up outside of the U.S. Army's Tripler General Hospital and Queen's Medical Center in response to pleas for blood. Soon after the gutted ship returned to port, a team of damage experts boarded her and, after viewing the gaping deck holes, decided that the seven-year-old, $444-million carrier would have to return to the mainland for extensive repairs. Meanwhile, another team pushed through the charred rubble to try to discover the cause of the fire...
...From the deck of the little 350-ton Arbella plowing westward through the angry Atlantic to the Massachusetts coast in 1630, John Winthrop preached a sermon that struck the theme of what America in all its future years would seek to be. "Wee shall be," Winthrop prophesied, "as a Citty upon a Hill, the Eies of all people are uppon us; soe that if wee shall deale falsely with our god in this worke wee have undertaken and soe cause him to withdrawe his present help from us, wee shall be made a story and a byword through the world...
...national monument. He took one look and said, I don't believe in conservation just for conservation's sake.' . . . All the new people want an office close to the President's. You should see them scramble. It's like fighting for a deck chair on the Titanic." ∙∙∙ As it circled lightly over the R.A.F. field at Bassingbourn, the tiny, single-engine trainer looked dwarfed by the huge jet bombers at the base. But the bright red Chipmunk craft nonchalantly settled to a perfect landing and taxied over to a hangar. There...