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...aircraft carrier U.S.S. Forrestal slid out of the Greek port of Salonica one grey dawn last week, a 900-ton escort ship waited for her just outside the harbor. The Forrestal turned southward into the Aegean Sea, and the escort dutifully took up station a mile astern, rolling gently in the huge carrier's wake. At midday, when the Forrestal catapulted her Phantom jets into clearing skies, the escort drew alongside to within 50 yards of the carrier. But not a signal was exchanged. The escort vessel was Russian, a super gunboat of the Mirka class, and the Forrestal...
...country has felt the pinch of the Suez shutdown more than Russia, which must send its ships around Africa to Asia in order to keep Hanoi supplied, among other things. The Russians have a dredge in the Mediterranean, and could send it into the canal with a destroyer escort, daring the Israelis to shoot...
...Nixon's complaints has been that the Democrats let the Navy deteriorate. His favorite example of bureaucratic bungling is the Administration's decision not to give the carrier John F. Kennedy a nuclear power plant. He never says, however, that to be useful a nuclear carrier needs nuclear-powered escort ships. Two teams of nuclear escorts are being constructed, but in three years the Chester Nimilz will join the Enterprise as the second nuclear-powered carrier in the Navy. Equipping the Kennedy with nuclear power would have raised its cost by 50 per cent. Also the Kennedy could not have...
...students who showed up tried to slink in and out the door, guarded on each side by a bunny. When one student managed to escape without being given a Blood Drive balloon, the escort said excitedly, "Give him a balloon, give him a balloon." The student kept going, saying he didn't want one. "He didn't want one," Goldie said, grinning. The escort frowned...
...promotional effort yesterday ended early when the escort led his bunnies back through the Yard and home to the Bunny Mother. A Newsweek editor visiting Harvard stared at them a long time, but the rest of the people in the Yard hardly noticed...