Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...begun to suspect that Chehab's election now would amount to a rebel victory. Edde, respected son of a former President, had himself proposed Chehab's name early in the revolt, but insisted that his own withdrawal now would be "to surrender our democracy to the Sixth Fleet." On the second ballot, with only a simple majority now required, Chehab got 48 votes and was elected. Suddenly the crowded parliament chamber tensed to the muffled sound of a nearby heavy explosion. Then another explosion followed, and another. It was only the army firing a 21-gun salute...
...Malik, Hussein"): "You are a sick man, Eisenhower. You are sick and cannot stay long. You are weak, Eisenhower ... You cannot justify the landing of your army on hallowed Lebanese soil. You cannot justify your mad attitude towards summit talks. You cannot suppress the Lebanese revolution with your Sixth Fleet, which has polluted our waters. No, no, no, accursed imperialism ! ... Eisenhower, you aged imperialist...
This Angry Age. A strong but uneven picture, derived from The Sea Wall, a memorable novel about French pioneers in Indo-China; with Anthony Perkins and Jo Van Fleet (TIME, June...
...before taking a long walk home, as he put it, "to become healthfully fatigued and then to sleep." In October 1956 Jean Holloway died. Their son, Commander James L. Holloway III, Annapolis '42, is now commanding a jet squadron aboard the attack carrier Essex in the Sixth Fleet off Lebanon...
Frequently, too, Admiral Holloway takes off from his helicopter landing platform on Taconic to inspect his onshore and offshore commands, to consult with his field commanders-the Sixth Fleet's Amphibious Force Commander Rear Admiral Howard ("Red") Yeager, the Marines' Brigadier General Sidney Wade, the Army Airborne's Brigadier David W. Gray. Holloway must also make the rounds of U.S. and Lebanese officials-the State Department's visiting Trouble-shooter Robert Murphy, U.S. Ambassador McClintock, Lebanon's President Chamoun, Army Chief Shehab-to keep in close touch and in close tune with the intricate local...