Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...China's navy is considered more an extension of border forces than a true seagoing arm. It includes 25 to 30 submarines, mostly of Russian origin, that have been inoperable since the withdrawal of Soviet technicians, three or four old destroyers and destroyer escorts, an effective fleet of several hundred PT boats, and a number of old World War II landing craft...
What next in U.S. policy? It was a time of frantic pondering and frantic discussion in Washington. Some of the suggestions were ludicrous: cut off all aid to Diem (which would effectively hand the country to the Communists); run the Seventh Fleet up to the coast and force Diem out of power (also senseless, since no suitable successor was visible). No one seemed to be discussing perhaps the most sensible solution of all: stop all the halfway hints of encouragement to promoters of a coup d'état, and get on with the difficult and unpalatable task of working...
...rigs up a harness so the boys can try gravity-free "moon-walking," little Grover (Peter Robbins) breaks tether and is soon soaring over San Diego and out to sea. Instantly, much of Southern California is in a state of emergency. An aircraft carrier, a fire engine, a fleet of patrol boats, an LST, swarms of helicopters, jets and amphibian planes, an ambulance, police cars and a posse of excitable civilians mobilize into an armada of ineptitude. Finally Gig commandeers a blimp, has himself lowered on a life raft, grabs the flyaway as he floats...
...Stuart Symington has called him "one of the world's two foremost authorities on strategic airpower"-the other being Air Force Chief of Staff Curtis LeMay. At 58, Powers is the oldest bomber commander still on duty; under his control are hundreds of long-range missiles and a fleet of 1,400-odd Strategic Air Command bombers that account for perhaps 90% of the free world's firepower. "You must convince the enemy that no matter what he does, he will be destroyed," says Power. "That is deterrence." The son of Irish immigrants, Power was born in Great...
Working for Billy. Along Fleet Street, he inevitably was dubbed Britain's Henry Ford-and the careers of the two in many ways ran parallel. Son of an accountant who fell on hard times, William Morris* was forced to leave school at 16, became a 70?-a-week bicycle mechanic. When he was turned down for a raise, he quit and went to work "for Billy Morris," started making both bicycles and motorcycles. Gradually, automobile owners began driving up for repairs-and Morris decided that autos were his future. In 1910, with $20,000 in savings...