Word: fours
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...June 3, Evans was posted with four other destroyers as an antisubmarine net 3,000 to 10,000 yards off the bow of Melbourne. The carrier was scheduled to begin air operations at 3:30 a.m., and ordered Evans to change her position to 1,000 yards astern. In this station, the destroyer could rescue any fliers who hit the water. Although such close-in maneuvering is necessarily hazardous, Evans had made similar position changes earlier in the exercises without mishap. This time, inexplicably, the destroyer cruised right into the path of the massive carrier. The heavy steel prow...
...boilers became overstrained. Until last week, the worst mishap had occurred in 1964. Freshly fitted and equipped, Melbourne went to sea and collided with H.M.A.S. Voyager. (This collision was determined later to have been the destroyer's fault.) The repairs cost a quarter of a million dollars. Four months ago, after a year at dockside and a refitting that cost more than $8 million, Melbourne was scraped by a Japanese freighter, crushing a gun platform and demolishing a 40-mm. cannon...
...Carl Hubbs, professor emeritus of marine biology at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, stated flatly at the time that the channel "will never be quite nat ural again." Now, four months later, the channel's ecology seems to have been restored to virtually its natural state - al though oil seepage continues to smear city beaches...
...range effects on marine life may be as a result of the continuing oil seepage. In any case, it appears that the offensive derricks will be around for decades to come. Last week a presidential panel recommended that drilling on the Union lease site, which has been halted for four months, be resumed. The panel contended that the best way to stop the leak is to exhaust the oil reservoir un der Union's platform A - an undertaking that could last 20 years or more...
...conference. In the Kremlin gardens, the beds of long-stemmed tulips and multicolored pansies were especially neatly tended, and squads of plainclothes security agents checked passes and guided the delegates to the huge hall. For several days, Brezhnev, Kosygin and other ranking officials shuttled to Moscow's four airports welcoming arriving delegations. For trusted comrades like East Germany's Walter Ulbricht and Mongolia's Yumzhagin Tsedenbal, there were Slavic smacks on the cheek. There were no kisses for the arriving Rumanians. Brezhnev proffered a perfunctory hand to Rumania's independent-minded President and Party Boss Nicolae Ceausescu, who has often...