Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that troubled area while the President talks softly; it is the Middle East's steel-grey stabilizer, a powerful force of aircraft carriers and atom-armed planes, missile ships, cruisers, destroyers and a Marine amphibious unit that unobtrusively patrols-and controls-that ancient and vital waterway, the Mediterranean...
...handle atomic bombs. As of now, Admiral Brown's attack squadrons, paced by prop-driven Douglas AD Skyraiders, can deliver a low-level atomic attack at ranges up to 1,000 miles. Late this month the 60,000-ton Forrestal will relieve Coral Sea, bringing to the Mediterranean the Douglas A3D Skywarrior, a 600-m.p.h. twin-jet bomber with a range that can reach all the way to Moscow, if necessary, from anywhere in the Eastern Mediterranean...
With carrier planes circling overhead and ten destroyers guarding their flanks, they sailed slowly north out of the wreck-cluttered harbor and faded into the wintry Mediterranean dusk. The troops themselves were glad to go: it had not been pleasant duty on their sector, crowded in by Egyptians stirred by inflammatory propaganda in Nasser's newspapers...
...gunfire from both the enemy and the Allies, flew 25 miles in 30 minutes with an urgent message for Allied gunners, arrived at his destination wounded in a leg and a wing, saved the battalion. In World War II a pigeon called G.I. Joe flew countless missions in the Mediterranean, saved a British brigade in Italy when he carried a message canceling a bombardment of Colvi Vecchia, which the British had entered ahead of schedule (the Lord Mayor of London gave Joe a medal). But last week the U.S. Army said pigeon go home. The Army grounded...
...directory is that of a Mr. A A, who probably has the tersest handle in the Commonwealth. His phone, located at the premises, 30 Huntington Ave., is KEnmore 6-4642. The last number in the book, belonging to Mr. Carma Zzyzzway, of 18 Elba (not far from the Mediterranean Sea) is ASpnwl 7-4970. We hope they'll be hearing from...