Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week, reported TIME'S Dean Brelis from Athens, the companies were rapidly filling up empty offices in a 24-story business building in downtown Athens. The previous tenant was a logistics branch of the U.S. Navy, which was forced to move out when the Greek government ended Sixth Fleet home-porting facilities in protest against American policy on Cyprus...
...Unbecoming quickly becomes, though, is a wheezy courtroom thriller and, eventually, a nostalgic vindication of the British lads out on the frontier Concepts of military honor and justice neatly survive the half-witted examination to which Screenwriter Robert Enders subjects them. The movie is cast with a virtual mothball fleet of character actors (Trevor Howard, Christopher Plummer, Richard Attenborough), who are directed by Michael Anderson (The Shoes of the Fisherman) with almost definitive incompetence. One scene alone, in which Miss York is forced to reenact her attack and crawls toward the camera on all fours, squealing like a pig, might...
...line near Point Barrow. That would create a narrow navigation channel, enabling ice-free sailing to the pipeline's northern terminus at Prudhoe Bay. The winds finally came, and the convoy moved out. But the winds shifted unexpectedly and began blowing ice back into the path of the fleet. Last week the convoy was forced to retreat 30 miles to avoid being frozen in for the long Arctic winter...
...against wind and weather was the most serious setback yet. The barges contained thousands of tons of supplies-part of a $540 million cargo of fuel, cranes, transformers, sections of tall prefabricated buildings-too heavy or expensive to be moved by truck. There is a slim chance that the fleet could still get through-about 20% according to weather experts. Barring that, the delay may well mean the first trickle of oil will not begin flowing south to the deep-water port of Valdez on schedule in the summer of 1977. The expected flow of just under 2 million...
...Southeastern Mass Corsairs will come sailing into Soldier's Field today to tackle a newly revamped Radcliffe field hockey fleet. Last year the Cliffe stickwomen sunk to the depths of Davy Jones's locker with a dismal 1-9-2 slate, but this year under the helm of first year skipper, Debi Field, a new crew and much enthusiasm, the squad is looking to reverse that record...