Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than that. Nonetheless, the U.S. Navy is determined to locate the sunken nuclear submarine Thresher, 8,000 ft. down on the cold, dark bottom of the North Atlantic. No wreck has ever been found or even seriously searched for at so great a depth. But for weeks a strange fleet of floating scientific laboratories has been cruising the choppy waters 220 miles east of Cape Cod, and this week the weirdest craft of all is being towed into range. The bathyscaphe Trieste is preparing to dive toward the spot that undersea snapshots have tentatively marked as Thresher's grave...
PRESIDENT TO REVIEW WORLD FLEET ON OLD IRONSIDES AT N.Y. FAIR...
...British defense officials listened politely in London last week while a U.S. Navy task force argued the merits of a missile-firing surface fleet manned by mixed NATO crews. The Britons' real feelings toward the multilateral force (MLF) were best expressed in a sardonic limerick that made the rounds of Whitehall...
...British, who are already committed to building a $1 billion Polaris submarine fleet by 1970, reply that they cannot afford to pour more money into anything as theoretical as MLF. Europe's most telling objection to the project is that even if the allies did chip in, ultimate control of its weapons would still rest with...
...week's end the New Lavender Hill Mob, as Fleet Street inevitably christened it, was still at large-probably, guessed Scotland Yard, holed up within metropolitan London. Unlike Alec Guinness' mob, which melted down its loot into solid-gold Eiffel Tower souvenirs and shipped them to Paris, the real-life quartet probably aimed to export its bullion to India, where gold fetches twice the world market price. "I see no reason why they should be caught," said one expert. "They have a market for it all ready. It's that kind...