Word: fleets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MONTGOMERY: A DAY IN THE LIFE (A & M). Long a top jazz guitarist, Montgomery acquired new status and a wider audience with his first jazz-pop success, California Dreaming. Once more, with arrangements by . Don Sebesky, Wes has toned down his improvisations and tuned up a fleet of strings to accompany his standard rhythm section of piano, bass and drums. The result is a polished, gently swinging kind of music with a particularly polite but still identifiable Montgomery guitar...
...then performed a predictable feat of heroism. The pass from center for the extra point was low so he scooped up the ball and danced untouched into the endzone for the winning point. Then, as the clock ticked away the final seconds, Army's fleet half-back Paul Johnson broke loose toward the Harvard goal. "He had at least a ten-yard start on Barry, with no one between him and the goal line. How he caught him no one will ever know, but Wood just seemed to have that extra something on which to call when it was needed...
...Marine Corps is already extended to the leathernecked limit. In the U.S. the Marines have their 2nd Division (20,000 men), at Camp Lejeune, N.C., in combat readiness-an Atlantic reserve that must maintain seagoing battalion-landing teams with the Navy's Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean, and for the Caribbean. Combat ready on the West Coast, the 28th Marine Regiment (about 5,000 men) is rattling around in California's Camp Pendleton, a bare skeleton force whose departure would empty the West of Marines...
...Indeed, "the West, and especially the U.S., has no choice but to accept the Soviet challenge on the seas." We need only think of what Hitler could have done with Gorshkov's fleet to see the reason. How the history of the world would have been changed. Seapower will ensure us of more than a posthumous footnote in future history...
While it was still under way, Sir Francis Chichester's 226-day single-handed circumnavigation of the globe in the 53-ft. ketch Gipsy Moth IV received more popular acclaim than an armada of Magellans, Drakes and Joshua Slocums. Fleet Street printed reams on his every tack; BBC cameras traced his tortuous rounding of Cape Horn; the Queen knighted him in midpassage. Sailors and landlubbers alike marveled at the ability of a 65-year-old man, who had won a bout with lung cancer eight years earlier, to survive everything from chronic leaks to a capsizing in the Tasman...