Word: gulf
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...Iranian Lieut. General Gholem Azhari. His first concern was to defend Vahdati airfield near Dezful against an enemy column theoretically bearing toward it. This job was given to the U.S. paratroopers, who dropped in front of the invaders. At the same time, a U.S. amphibious force in the Persian Gulf sent a marine rifle com pany storming onto the island of Kharg to protect an imaginary oilfield against invasion or sabotage...
...postcards picture it, the Atlantic Ocean off Miami is a land lubber's delight where only the antics of frolicking porpoises disturb the serenity of the Gulf Stream. But there are days, and plenty of them, when the east wind rises and turns the 160-mile stretch between Miami and Nassau into one of the meanest, choppiest patches of water anywhere. Then small-craft warnings go up, and cautious skippers stick to sailing olives in a cozy yacht-club...
Died. Vice Admiral John Madison ("Uncle John") Hoskins, 65, who lost his right foot in a Japanese attack on the carrier Princeton in Leyte Gulf in 1944, seadoggedly battled top brass to return to duty ("Hell, Admiral, the Navy doesn't expect a man to think with his feet," he told "Bull" Halsey), by 1950 won command of the Seventh Fleet's Carrier Division III, whose jet squadrons led the attack in Korea; of a stroke; in Falls Church...
...small as it is precocious, Carnegie's G.S.I.A. was launched just 15 years ago with $6,000,000 from the late William L. Mellon, then board chairman of Gulf Oil. Now almost twice as rich the one-building school holds itself to 125 students and 35 professors (average age: 34). The school's renown comes from its stress on "scientific decision making"-a systems approach to orchestrating companies by using the most advanced technological tools. Such gelt-edged Gestalt, said one British economist in a recent assessment of J.S.^business schools, has made Carnegie "the one with...
Into Atlantic and Gulf Coast ports rolled rail cars laden with thousands of tons of wheat bound for Russia. At pierside, nine ships waited to load. But for nine days the wheat moved no farther. Thomas W. ("Teddy") Gleason, 63, president of the International Long shoremen's Association, had ordered his stevedores to touch not one kernel of cargo. The great wheat deal, it seemed, was stymied...