Word: flotilla
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...small stream refilling canteens when the radio crackles: we are going to be dropped by copter into the area where the G.I.s had been ambushed yesterday. We move to the nearest landing zone -and wait. Finally, at 1 p.m. the helicopters show up to ferry us in a flotilla of six-man groups to the assault landing zone. I ride in the third chopper (the fourth or fifth is thought to be the most desirable) with Sergeant Henry R. Campbell of Newington, Conn., who won a Bronze Star in a firefight last October. Campbell is modest about his star ("Hell...
Last week two U.S. tunaboats, the Western King and the Anne Maria, the first captured by Ecuadorian patrol boats this year, were forced to pay a total of $151,510 in fines. With a 50-boat flotilla headed down from San Diego and the prospect of yet another showdown, the State Department last week sent a diplomatic flotilla of its own, headed by Charles Meyer, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, to Quito to try to reach some kind of settlement...
...British fleet, which once ruled the waves east of Suez, began to withdraw its forces in 1966. The Russians, meanwhile, have gradually created a squadron of ten or more ships on regular patrol, occasionally including nuclear submarines. During the recent war, there were 15 ships in the Soviet flotilla, including two guided missile cruisers...
...into a Suez Canal agreement. The Phantom decision is still, so to speak, up in the air, but Jerusalem hopes for some progress when Assistant Secretary of State Joseph J. Sisco makes a scheduled visit this week. "We don't expect Sisco to come flying over in a flotilla of Phantoms," says a government official. "But we do hope that he will come with words of encouragement...
...disk may allude to the sun, to a breast or to an altar; a triangle to a pyramid or a bird's spread wings. With its vertical masts and calm progression of red, sail-like forms, Odyssey, one of the monumental sculptures at Hammarskjold Plaza, suggests an archaic flotilla dipping through the Aegean. Sometimes a sculpture will work not as an object but as a kinetic metaphor of force. Ascent includes a blade of red steel that surges from the ground and appears to crush a cylinder until it is halted and returned to balance by the serene oblong...