Word: fleets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...projected 10,000 guests, the Republican hoedown will be both smaller than the Democrats' and smaller than expected (the party canceled about 12,000 unneeded hotel reservations last month). To ferry conventioneers between the 47 delegation hotels and the convention, G.O.P. organizers will be running a fleet of 120 shuttle buses (price of a four-day pass: $30). Only minor skirmishes over platform positions are expected inside the hall. Conservatives, led by Kemp and Congressman Trent Lott of Mississippi, are pushing for three major planks: a return to the gold standard (tying the value of the dollar directly...
They went down to the sea off Long Beach expecting rough going against the able yachtsmen from Western Europe and Down Under. But for the U.S. fleet, winning turned out to be a breeze. In the seven classes of boats, U.S. skippers took three gold medals and four silvers, followed by the Canadians and the New Zealanders, who sailed away with three medals each. The men at the helms of these swift, finicky craft needed the cunning of a chess player, the agility of a gymnast. And experience counted too. The most weathered sailor was Denmark's Paul Elvstrom...
...bombers (cost: $24 million each) solely for the purpose of cannibalizing their equipment. The Army's highly touted 101st Airborne Division, based in Fort Campbell, Ky., had an astonishing personnel turnover rate of 16.6% a month. Of the 190 F-14 fighters in the Navy's Atlantic Fleet equipped with the Phoenix air-to-air missile, 32 were recently either in maintenance or storage. The report quotes a senior Army commander in the Pacific as saying that if a war in Europe preceded a conflict in Korea, "the U.S. troops in Korea best learn how to swim...
Larry Simns, President of the Maryland Waterman's Association, says that declining catches are forcing him and his fellow fishermen out of business. As Tilghman Islander William Roulette points out, "We all must work part-time ashore." The Chesapeake fleet of skipjacks, sail-driven oyster dredges, has dropped from more than 100 boats to 30; the number of working watermen has shrunk from 7,500 in the '50s to about...
...Bureau Chief Michael Moritz and Correspondent Dick Thompson were reporting this week's cover stories on the city, on-scene preparations for TIME's convention coverage were being made by Olivia Stewart, a former bureau secretary who has returned to take up such duties as renting a fleet of 25 cars to transport people, film and copy through the jammed streets. To serve as drivers, she has recruited off-duty fire fighters. Says she: "They know the city and how to get around it fast better than almost anyone." Her opinion may be a bit biased: the fire...