Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...road, Vance has so far been content to use Kissinger's back-up Boeing 707. It is less comfortable than the plane regularly used by his predecessor, which is now part of the Administration's fleet. Kissinger spent a good deal of time in the rear of the plane talking off the record to reporters, even as the jet rocketed down the runway. He would return two or three times during a trip to chat, quip, tell jokes and stories about foreign leaders or spin out grand stratagems while nibbling peanuts or candy. Vance is more reserved...
Sophomore captain Laura Brown sees good things on the horizon this year. With Princeton, last year's champion, hurt by the graduation of its star skipper, she thinks the 'Cliffe can make its move to the head of the fleet by blowing past perennial rivals Tufts and MIT. Behind Brown and "A" Division skipper Bam Mack, the women will face their first test at a New England Women's Intercollegiate Sailing Association invitational regatta at MIT tomorrow morning...
Sailors with the U.S. Sixth Fleet call it chicken of the sea. It is a seaborne version of the highway hot-rodders' "chicken" that is frequently played in the crowded Mediterranean by Soviet and American warships. Typically, a Russian vessel will dart and weave among U.S. ships, trying to frighten their skippers into turning sharply to avoid collision. These episodes usually end harmlessly-but not always...
...CHARACTERIZATIONS of the Indians, although minor parts, are crucial to the play's spirit of mockery. David Kleeman as Chief Brown Bear is so overly dignified and wooden that he deserves a chair in the Classics Department. Fleet Foot, portrayed by Alan Middleton, is the typical half-blind, half-dead reservation Indian. The best of all, however, is the wild savage Yellow Feather, Adam Ramirez, who lusts after the white flesh of our Little Mary. By giving Besoyan's characters the right amount of schmaltz, the Sunshine Indians help rebut the John Wayne school of frontier history...
...system. They also offered to establish a joint fleet that would have enabled them to dominate all of China's waters, coastal and inland. As a matter of fact, the Chairman agreed to the last proposal, but only on the condition that the Chinese pay for such a system. Chairman Mao told Khrushchev, "This is a matter of principle: otherwise you'll take every thing away...