Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thirty-two miles to the northeast, at the harbor city of Keelung (pop. 150,000), the 13,600-ton cruiser Helena, flagship of the U.S. Seventh Fleet, lay at anchor. Aboard the Helena, the atmosphere seemed as cheerful as that ashore. The fleet's commander, a quiet, three-star admiral named Alfred Melville Pride, one of a long line of seafaring Prides (see box), went about his daily routine with casual efficiency. The mood aboard ship was one of unruffled waiting. Vice Admiral Pride and his topflight staff had events well enough in hand so that he could...
Beneath the calm on Formosa and the studied casualness on the Helena was the knowledge that the land and the ship and the fleet lay in the core of a diplomatic tornado that was swirling around the world. Two hundred and fifty miles away, the mangled bodies of Chinese Nationalists killed in the Communist Chinese attack on the islet of Yikiang were tossed ashore by the turbulent waters of the East China Sea. There was little calm, outward or inward, in Washington or in London or in the United Nations headquarters at New York. In the world's capitals...
...blue memo slips with terse messages, e.g., "O.K., I'll go along with this," or simply. "Let's talk." He finished his correspondence by 9 o'clock. Then, one by one through his brown Fiberglas door curtain came the top officers of Pride's Seventh Fleet for a conference. Pride greeted them quietly. These were men who measured up to his half-joking credo: "If you find the right man for the right job, you don't have to work nearly so hard yourself."After the conference, followed by a business lunch, Pride took...
Since arising, he had turned in a maximum amount of work with a minimum of fuss and bother. The U.S. Seventh Fleet reflected the relaxed efficiency of Mel Pride, who, despite a distinguished record, is a stranger to the public...
...expand into the transatlantic market. Last August the line inaugurated its first U.S.-Madrid flight with three nonstop Lockheed Super-Constellations, bought entirely with its own profits. Says President Paz, whose three new Super-Connies are named the Pinta, Niña, and Santa Maria, after Columbus' tiny fleet: "Our crossings will build a sort of aerial bridge, subtle and invisible, on the common ground of friendship...