Word: lantflex
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...Lantflex I-57 (code name for the exercise) with its 19 ships set out to sea, Ike's hosts trotted out a dark-blue Mitscher-type cap and a dark-blue foul-weather jacket with "The President" stenciled in gold on the chest. Ike took up his station for hours at a time on the green-tinted, glass-windowed flag bridge of Saratoga.* With him was an all-star Government audience for whom the Navy could hoist its message. From Washington had come Secretary of State John Foster Dulles (who talks up but has seldom witnessed the military muscles...
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