Word: flotilla
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Everybody stayed. Mattey and his assistants made adjustments. Each day, a flotilla of small craft from the company would set out to sea. Bruce required a whole vessel to himself and another for the men who handled his controls. There were additional boats for the camera crew and the actors, supply boats, an old ferry from Chappaquiddick. They made the journey six days a week, through the summer and into autumn. Some days they would come back with no film at all. The daily departure began to look like a cortege...
...Egypt's. It was instead the 14,600-ton guided missile cruiser Little Rock, flagship of the U.S. Sixth Fleet. The Little Rock was trimmed with flags, including the Stars and Stripes, which flapped visibly in the hot summer wind. Two Soviet admirals among the guests in the flotilla-Moscow's sole representation at the ceremonies-glowered and gloomed...
...Thailand and aboard the U.S. flotilla, meantime, the operation was beginning under the overall command of Air Force Lieut. General John J. Burns. At 5:45 a.m. local time, he ordered 210 Marines led by Lieut. Colonel Randall W. Austin, the ships and warplanes at Utapao and aboard the Coral Sea to make final preparations. Three HH-53 Jolly Green Giant helicopters fluttered from Utapao to the destroyer escort Holt, where 40 Marines clambered down ropes to the deck...
...return to a resumed Geneva conference. Syria, like its chief supporter and arms supplier, the Soviet Union, still sees Geneva talks as the proper vehicle for achieving a final settlement. As a heavyhanded way of underscoring Moscow's support at a ticklish moment, a small Soviet naval flotilla-a cruiser, a destroyer and a submarine-dropped anchor at Latakia as the U.N. mandate was being discussed...
...capital. They made quick advances the first day, capturing that corridor. Then Greek resistance sharply stiffened. Fierce fighting raged for Nicosia, with neither side in control of the city. A naval-air battle erupted Sunday on the southwest coast of the island, according to Ankara, when a Greek flotilla tried to land troops near Paphos. The Turkish General Staff claimed the attempt failed after Turkish warplanes repeatedly attacked the Greek forces, damaging destroyers and landing craft...