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...Washington decided to stand firm at Quemoy. The Joint Chiefs sent a Tactical Air Command task force of scores of medium jet bombers and supersonic jet interceptors to Formosa, sent carriers Essex and Midway to reinforce the four carriers in the Seventh Fleet, ordered the Seventh Fleet to escort Chinese Nationalist supply convoys to within three miles of Quemoy. A week later the President, in a speech from the White House, capped the U.S. effort: "A Western Pacific Munich would not buy us peace. There is not going to be any appeasement...
...Best." Since Nasser seized the canal, his men have put 28,949 ships through without a single serious accident. One day last March an alltime record of 84 ships passed through the canal. By all signs, this month will set another record. Last August the U.S. aircraft carrier Essex, with a deck half again wider than that of any ship transiting the canal before, showed up at Port Said on an emergency dash to reinforce the Seventh Fleet off Formosa. The Egyptians eagerly built a special platform on the deck, and from this vantage their senior pilot, a Greek with...
...choices were excellent, ranging from the chromatic Forlorne Hope, in which Bream showed he could "pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow," through the expressive Sir John Langton's Pavan--the finest gem of the evening--to the syncopated and almost jazzy Earl of Essex's Galliard...
...actively edits an historical quarterly put out by the Essex Institute in Salem, and is currently writing a book of his own--to be a study of Newburyport during and after the American Revolution...
...Yard, turned out for the largest reunion in College history, and got a special treat. Its members saw the first public exhibition of the Kronosaurus sea monster, skeleton of what was once the largest flesh-eating reptile in the ocean. There were also cocktails, a day at the Essex County Club, panels on education, and the Yale baseball game...