Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gleaming weapon that makes the new Eisenhower Middle East policy more than words is the U.S. Navy's Sixth Fleet. This is the big stick that the U.S. carries in that troubled area while the President talks softly; it is the Middle East's steel-grey stabilizer, a powerful force of aircraft carriers and atom-armed planes, missile ships, cruisers, destroyers and a Marine amphibious unit that unobtrusively patrols-and controls-that ancient and vital waterway, the Mediterranean...
While the British gave way on one big Suez question, they were busily negotiating with the U.N.'s Dag Hammarskjold on a second: the clearing of the canal. The British wanted the U.N. to use the British 20-ship salvage fleet to clear the remaining 13 wrecks in Port Said harbor, and to help remove wrecks lodged farther south in the canal. The U.N. wanted these ships, especially six lifting craft, but the sticking point was their crews. Nasser refused to contemplate British and French sailors' sailing up and down the canal...
Taken up technically, the matter proved solvable. The Anglo-French salvage fleet would keep working in the Port Said harbor after the troops left. The ships would be turned over to the U.N., operate under the U.N. flag. Royal Navy officers and men would don civilian clothes "down to cuff links," and all wear U.N. arm bands. The ships would dismantle all guns (a good thing, gruffed Lord Hailsham, "there's nobody there I'd particularly want to salute...
...trousers and cutaway coat. But Tory anger in Commons was stayed by the realization that Britain could either cooperate or go on cutting off the flow of its lifeblood oil at Suez. Lord Hailsham, quieter in London than he was in Port Said, said: "We will civilianize the whole fleet if necessary...
...Turtleback. Vicky, a refugee from Naziism, landed in Britain 21 years ago. He spoke no English, faced an even more formidable obstacle for a car toonist: he was baffled by British humor. By reading and rereading Alice in Wonderland, he rode (as one colleague says) to "his conquest of Fleet Street on the back of the Mock Turtle." In 1941, Alice-sized (5 ft. 3 in., 120 Ibs.) Vicky landed his first successful newspaper job with London's News Chronicle. After twelve years he quit because an editor refused to run one of his cartoons. Says Vicky: "I have...