Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...land, sea and air, the U.S. tightened the screws on North Viet Nam. American 175-mm. artillery pounded targets north of the Demilitarized Zone at the 17th parallel. Navy planes seeded Northern rivers with mines. Seventh Fleet ships blasted the North's coast with 5-and 8-in. guns. On their side, the Communists began pounding U.S. installations with powerful 140-mm. Russian rockets (see THE WORLD...
...NAVAL BOMBARDMENT. Until last week the U.S. Seventh Fleet, patrolling the Gulf of Tonkin, was authorized to fire only on shore batteries that fired first on them or on radar stations tracking U.S. ships for targeting purposes. Other coastal targets-roads, trucks, trains, SAM missile sites-have been taken care of by the fleet's fighter-bombers, whose activity is drastically curtailed during the monsoon month of March. Last week Navy guns attacked those North Vietnamese targets as well. The guided-missile destroyer U.S.S. Joseph Strauss opened up with 5-in. guns that lob 54-lb. shells from...
...launching an unmanned Agena rocket to carry needed fuel, supplies or parts to a disabled ship. The Agena could even lock onto the crippled vehicle, enabling it to use the Agena's control and propulsion systems to return to earth. M.I.T. students have drawn up plans for a fleet of lifting-body rescue craft mounted on Titan 3C rockets and standing ready on launching pads-like a space-age version of the Coast Guard-to rendezvous with distressed spacecraft...
...theater of operations in Hollywood, Director John Ford, 72, took an old costume out of mothballs-the dress blues identifying him as a rear admiral, U.S. Naval Reserve. A genuine salt with combat service during World War II and the Korean War, Ford arranged to put out with the fleet on three weeks' temporary active duty. Flying to Marseille, he caught up with the cruiser U.S.S. Columbus, joined the staff of an old war buddy, Rear Admiral John Bulkeley, who commands a Sixth Fleet flotilla. Admiral Ford posed on the bridge like Captain Bligh, then settled down...
...Orchestra, which once popped in at the last minute, instruments and all - and have held off would-be imitators, who lack the necessary extra planes to compete. Still, betting on extra frills rather than extra flights, American President Marion Sadler vows to take half the business with a new fleet of short-haul BAC-111 jets and "make money...