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...yellow dispatches reporting the global deployment of the U.S. Navy. Morning found Burke still in his office, the Navy deployed, the lead battalion of Marines on the Beirut beaches. The Sixth Fleet's 60,000-ton supercarrier Saratoga and support carrier Wasp, with 40-ship escort, were riding offshore. Reinforcements, including the guided-missile cruiser Boston and attack carrier Essex, were steaming up from Greek waters. Sweeps of AD Skyraider and A4D Skyhawk bombers, plus F8U Crusader interceptors, were heading out over Lebanon and Jordan. Burke's follow-through: in Lebanon a second Marine battalion landed, then...
...That pronunciation was wrong, but she was told to go ahead. When she misspelled the word (only one s). judges decided that she had been misled. Jolitta was allowed to try Quincunx. She spelled it, and, in spite of protests from Pittsburgh Pressman Joe Williams, Tina's escort, the deadlock continued...
...hours on Aug. 24, 1942, in the Battle of the Eastern Solomons. Commander Harry Donald Felt, 40, leader of a bomb and torpedo air group from the carrier Saratoga, was snapping out his orders as he eyed the Japanese light carrier Ryujo with cruiser and destroyer escort from 14,000 ft. Just after Ryujo turned into the wind to launch fighters, Don Felt, Topeka-born, Annapolis '23, pushed over his first wave of bombers. Then he went down with the second wave in a screaming dive through flak and fighters to score one out of his group...
...Back Door. Reporters, trying to reflect the drama of a tense week, were driven to recording the comings and goings of black limousines-the visible external evidence of fateful activities. Shortly after 10:30 one night early last week, an official car, preceded by a noisy motorcycle escort, shot out of the courtyard of the Hotel Matignon, official Parisian residence of France's Premiers. Instantly, the shoal of reporters who were keeping a round-the-clock watch on the final agonies of the Fourth Republic set off in hot pursuit. As they left (in chase after a decoy...
...with thousands of U.S. planes, from the 22-year-old DC-3s to the Super Constellations and DC-7s. In the jet age, U.S. planemakers also plan to dominate the air. Last week Douglas Aircraft Co. rolled out its 176-passenger DC-8 for its first flight. With an escort of two jet chase planes to observe and take pictures, a veteran Douglas test crew took the DC-8 to 31,000 ft., flew it over the Pacific at 360 m.p.h. (top speed: 600 m.p.h.). Said President Donald W. Douglas Jr.: "It looked standard. Like it's going...