Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy began toying with a design for an aircraft carrier of unprecedented range, to be powered by an atomic engine. Last week the Atomic Energy Commission gave the plan a bright green light, contracted with Westinghouse Electric to build an atomic reactor "suitable for propulsion of large naval vessels, such as aircraft carriers...
Spain, a half-ally, half-wooed last year by Senator Pat McCarran's "special" $100 million appropriation (which President Truman has refused to deliver), was playing hard to get over the naval and air bases the U.S. wants. Franco's price: $125 million in MSA funds and an ironclad guarantee that the U.S. will fly to Spain's defense in the event of war with Russia...
...week's end most of the athletes had left Helsinki and the hospitality of the "wonderful Finns." Once again, as the sun slanted long shadows across the Olympic stadium, the flags of the nations were paraded around the brick-red track. Seven Finnish naval cadets, handsome in blue uniforms and white caps, lowered the Olympic flag. On its high tower, the Olympic torch flared brightly for a moment, then went out. while the crowd sang the Finnish national anthem, the electric Scoreboard hopefully flashed in Latin the Olympic motto: "Faster, higher, stronger." If no general war intervened, the world...
Always a realist, he accepted the ultimatum of an obscure general delivered by a turncoat politician. He abdicated, and quit Egypt within the six hours specified. As he stood on the quay to embark, his huge, beefy frame encased in a white naval uniform, tears spilled down his cheeks. Twenty-one guns fired the royal salute, and the royal yacht Mahroussa (meaning Protected) put past the harbor's red and green entrance lights and steamed for Italy. It carried Farouk, his 19-year-old wife, their seven-month-old son, now King Fuad II, and 204 royal trunks...
During a checkup after his sinus surgery a fortnight ago, doctors at Bethesda Naval Hospital discovered that Senator Joseph McCarthy needed still more patching, and ordered an operation for diaphragmatic hernia. After successful surgery, McCarthy was told that the original ban on his politicking would be extended from six weeks to at least two months. Among those who agreed to lend their voices and pinch-hit in his campaign for reelection: Arthur Bliss Lane, onetime U.S. Ambassador to Poland, who will make an anti-Communist speech...