Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...response to Lyndon Johnson's orders for economies by federal branches, the U.S. Naval Academy last week struck a doughty blow for frugality, announced that it will sell its $1,750,000, 876-acre dairy farm outside Annapolis, along with a greengrass fleet of 377 cows, 262 calves and four bulls. Finding that it can buy milk for $84,000-a-year less than it costs to produce it, the Navy plans to dry up its 55-year-old milk run by June...
...made only three films, as yet unreleased-things called Swinging Summer, Fantastic Journey and One Million B.C. Nonetheless Actress Raquel Welch, 23, a San Diego lass making the London scene, is upstaging every sexpot in Europe, being treated to covers on picture magazines and about as much Fleet Street play as Meg would get if she left Lord Snowdon. It's all quite unaccountable, although Raquel herself explains it this way: "I'm told it is due to my vitality and sensuality." Maybe...
Stranger yet to Palomares fishermen were the Jules Verne trawling capsules imported by the Navy's 18-ship, 2,200-man recovery task force under "Wild Bill" Guest, 52. Among the most sophisticated hardware in his far-out fleet were the civilian-manned, deep-diving research subs Aluminaut and Alvin. It was Alvin's two crewmen who first found the wayward nuke last month, wrapped in its grey parachute 2,500 ft. down on a 70° slope. But Alvin proved a ham-handed retriever. On its first try at getting a line around the bomb...
Rash of Jokes. Inevitably, the hostesses have become known among Bonded birdmen as Pucci Galores. And the multicolor fleet has raised a rash of jokes, such as the one about the airport controlman who radioed a Braniff pilot: "O.K., dearie, take...
Regarding the difficulty of maintaining conditions with Taipel while removing oppostion to Peking's admission into the U.N., Fairbank, said that the feud between Nationalist China and the main land is not something concerning this He emphasized the importance of leaving the United States fleet in Taiwan Straight, but he said that the real problems between Peking and Tapei dissolved through negotiations by countries...