Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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JAMES A. VAN FLEET General, U.S. Army (ret.) Auburndale...
...Force scientists say. The deterring factors, say other hardheaded and senior scientists, are that an ambitious moon project would cost the U.S. about $2 billion and would have no immediate and visible military value. But the missilemen do not leave the argument there. "It would be like the Sixth Fleet," said one Air Force general, "a deterrent and therefore a peacekeeper. I'm all for it." Ben Schriever adds: "Several decades from now the important battles may not be sea battles or air battles but space battles, and we should be spending a certain fraction of our national resources...
...become familiar in Korea two years later. But after Tito's break with Stalin, something went wrong with the Communist army in Greece. General Markos was reported "seriously ill." In the confusion the small, tough Greek army (with expert military guidance by U.S. General James A. Van Fleet) was able to drive the Communists out of Greece...
This week, in a new history of the British press called Dangerous Estate, newsmen may find a timely re-evaluation of their basic role on both sides of the Atlantic. Written by Francis Williams, a veteran Fleet Streeter who was editor of the Laborite Daily Herald before the war and now edits the Socialist Forward magazine, the book was hailed by the London Observer's reviewer as the best study of the press he had read, praised by the London Times and recommended by the Manchester Guardian as "required reading...
...paper went to press, seventeen undergraduates and three government tutors had volunteered their services. The brigade leaders, William Brady, Edward Abramson, and John G. Wofford have outlined a campaign which should not extend beyond the Spring Recess. It is to be hoped that the Yacht Club will get its fleet to the rendezvous point in ample time...