Word: fleets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Belmont Stakes will be run on June 7th, 15 miles from New York City at Elmont, Long Island. Will Majestic Prince become the ninth winner of the Triple Crown Trophy, joining Sir Barton (1919), Gallant Fox (1930), Omaha (1935), War Admiral (1937), Whirlaway (1941), Count Fleet (1943), Assault (1946), and Citation (1948)? It seems unlikely, for Majestic Prince has been scratched from the race by his trainer John Longden. Longden said that he did this out of consideration for the horse. One tends to believe that it is Mr. Longden's reputation that is at stake...
...part, the Navy high command had already recognized the fact that there could be no single whipping boy. Admiral John Hyland, Pacific Fleet commander, had himself disagreed with the court of inquiry's stand, and Admiral Thomas Moorer, Chief of Naval Operations, sided with Hyland (though the final decision rested with Chafee). In effect, the Navy's top command was accepting the fact that the blame for Pueblo had to be shared. The Navy still had to cope with the problem of maintaining its long tradition of tenacity in battle. Said one senior officer...
Transparent and Purple. "Mystery is the important thing," says Ethel Scull, Pop-art patron and wife of the owner of a fleet of New York City taxicabs. "I'll never, never wear a see-through without a body stocking," she insists, remembering the passing pedestrian who had one look through her first one before "his glasses fell off." Model Penelope Tree substitutes a satin bra for the body stocking, refusing to go without anything. "It's hard enough getting people to pay attention to what you're saying," she says, "without focusing their attention on your bosom...
...aircraft carriers and an anti-submarine aircraft carrier, with a total of more than 200 planes, three cruisers, 22 destroyers, at least five submarines, five or six supply ships and, briefly, U.S.S. New Jersey, the world's only operative battleship. A perplexing question is why so formidable a fleet was needed...
...important that most of the papers' airport mechanics are also trained to fill in as photographers. The dailies even use vacant lots near their offices as sites on which to drop negatives from helicopters when time permits. Asahi spends $694,000 a year on its air fleet, including the salaries of twelve pilots, 21 maintenance personnel and 30 other aides. "The greater the competition, the more planes we simply have to have," explains one Asahi official...