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...overruns have immersed the whole Navy in a sea of red ink. Among the most expensive items: >-A new destroyer escort pleased the Navy so much on paper that the admirals ordered 46 in all-14 from Todd Shipyards, five from Lockheed, and 27 from Ogden Corp.'s Avondale subsidiary, which departs from tradition by launching its ships sideways, into the Mississippi River at New Orleans. After the ships were ordered, specifications were drawn and redrawn as the admirals sought scientific perfection-or were sold on new electronic gadgets. Many important parts were only in the development stage...
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...here I was, standing next to a girl whose escort had just been thrown headlong through a swinging door, and who had come storming back in to receive a chair over his shoulders. I was champing on a medium-well hamburger, swilling beer out of a pitcher and roaring "All right!" at the top of my lungs...
...fracas started as the Weathermen were staging a march with a heavy police escort from Haymarket Square to Grant Park as the finale to their "Bring the War Home" demonstrations...
...Golda Meir prepared for a sentimental journey. After visits to New York and Los Angeles, she would return to Milwaukee, where she taught school before moving to Jerusalem in 1921. Even in Milwaukee, Middle East tensions will be apparent. With the Premier will be the largest security force to escort a foreign dignitary since Nikita Khrushchev visited...