Word: fleeting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deposing antique King Idris in 1969. Gaddafi, who has apparently come to the belated realization that he was isolating himself from practically everybody but Cairo and Moscow, has moved hesitantly toward renewed relations with the West. Meanwhile he has been ignoring Soviet requests to let units of their Mediterranean fleet call at any Libyan port Gaddafi may designate...
...however, when the U.S.S. Forrestal visited Istanbul, the climate had changed. Several U.S. sailors had been thrown into the Bosporus by anti-American crowds, and Turkish women greeted the Forrestal-the last American carrier to visit-with signs proclaiming ISTANBUL IS NOT A BROTHEL FOR THE SIXTH FLEET...
Truck traffic is equally relentless. Each night a fleet of some 1,000 convoy trucks rolls out from hiding places in limestone caves and bunkers and moves south. Each driver covers the same 15-to 40-mile stretch of road again and again until he can negotiate it blindfolded. There is a reason for that: headlights must be dimmed or even doused for much of the trip because of marauding aircraft. At the end of his run, a driver unloads his cargo at a transfer point and heads back for more. Each section, called a binh tram (logistical support) system...
...most difficult part of the changeover will come when the banks close in the middle of this week. A fleet of airplanes, 145 armored trucks and ten trunk railway lines-Britain's biggest convoy since World War II-will bring 6,000,000 checks, statements and credit documents from 14,500 banks throughout the country to London. There they will be converted into the new currency and shipped back to their place of origin. When the banks reopen next Monday, some 25 million accounts will be decimalized and up to date. Government departments, the stock exchange and subway system...
...sharp and frequently funny scenario is by Daniel Taradash, who cannily undercuts the elephantine melodramatics of Frank G. Slaughter's original novel with some fleet and biting dialogue of his own. He and Director George Schaefer let audiences know they are not quite serious. The story concerns itself with the sordid vagaries of a small group of California physicians and their spouses. The husbands have their mistresses, the wives their lovers, and both share a set of suburban hangups that would stagger the late Grace Metalious. The game of musical beds ends when one of the doctors finds...