Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cheaper Ways? McNamara has no present plans for scuttling the Navy's carrier fleet-in-being: 16 modern attack carriers and nine World War II flattops. But he has grave doubts about letting the Navy continue its program of starting a new carrier every other year. Says one of McNamara's Whiz Kid analysts: "It's a question of how many we need. The more we ask the question, the more one thing becomes clear: we're not sure the Navy has any clear strategic rationale for building more carriers. We're determined to find...
Chain of Events. Ward arranged an unsuccessful screen test for Christine with Douglas Fairbanks Jr., introduced her to a naval attache at the Russian embassy, and to a "senior naval officer of the American fleet who sorted out her problems." But Christine, said Ward, also had "occasional foolhardy adventures in the completely different world of colored men." One day last December, Johnnie Edgecombe, Christine's West Indian lover, showed up outside Ward's West End flat, where Christine was visiting, and fired several shots at the door. Police carted Johnnie away and tagged Christine to be the principal...
...often seems to be to curl up with a good book. Perusing the Greek classics and pinpointing their references. Italian Entrepreneur Jean-Baptiste Serpieri in 1864 rediscovered the ancient mines of Laurium near Athens, from which the classical Athenians extracted their wealth and the lead needed to build their fleet. Geologist Charles Godfrey Gunther located copper on Cyprus by reading Latin manuscripts. The latest to cash in on the classics is a short, stocky Greek named Alexander Xenarios, who spent 30 years roaming Greece and making minor finds before he hit the jackpot: a deposit in northern Greece...
...Mets have nowhere to go but up, the Houston Colts are likely cellar occupants. Fleet Manny Mota and Dave Roberts should provide some punch, but the team stands to lose (except at the gate) in trading slugger Roman Mejias for Texan Pete Runnells...
...aircraft carrier Enterprise, operating with the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean, has had for about a year its own self-contained TV station, broadcasting training films, ship's basketball games. Wagon Tram, Perry Mason, and bosomy French lessons by Actress Dawn Addams onto 85 TV screens on the carrier's closed circuit. The sailors paid for it themselves through bingo, raffles, and so on. Pitying the little destroyer escorts and other pint-sized ships that always knifed around the "Big E" carrying nothing but radios, the Enterprise crew raised more money and installed a transmitter. Last week WENT...