Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Behind Barbed Wire. An Army helicopter stood ready on the grounds of the nearby Bethesda Naval Hospital to take the President, Prime Minister and British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd (who dislikes air travel in general and, from his appearance, helicopter travel in particular) to Camp David, the Maryland retreat of Presidents, where Franklin Roosevelt (who called it Shangri-La) met in secrecy with Winston Churchill during World War II. (Harry Truman had no use for the place.) Some lesser lights of the British party, who followed by helicopter and car, grumbled about being tucked away in such sylvan solitude...
...minute timing tolerance that orders prescribed, the rockets zoomed off, beautifully vertical. Then, mission accomplished, Task Force 88 steamed smartly into Rio for a well-deserved five-day spell ashore. To Admiral Mustin and Captain Gralla, the Navy decided to award the Legion of Merit. And from Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh Burke came a radio message for all hands: "A most hearty well-done" for a splendidly fulfilled pioneering task...
...next Army Chief of Staff, to succeed retiring General Maxwell Taylor, 57, next July 1. Lemnitzer was the only new man on the President's list of appointees to the Joint Chiefs of Staff: Air Force's General Nathan Farragut Twining, 61, was reappointed chairman; Chief of Naval...
...centuries wrested a precarious living from the offshore fishing banks, Newfoundlanders are turning away from the sea to more rewarding work ashore. Now the island's pulp and paper mills, its mines, its green harvest of federal social welfare payments, and the payrolls of four U.S. air and naval bases all contribute more to the economy than the island's once all-important fisheries. Before confederation, Newfoundlanders earned an average of $150 each per year; they have boosted this to $775, but their standard of living still lags far behind that of other Canadians, who average...
...Novelist Cecil Scott (Hornblower) Forester takes the opposite tack, prefaces his little Bismarck book with the warning: "This is as it may have happened. The speeches are composed by the writer." In The Ship (1943) Briton Forester showed that he could get inside the skins and skulls of British naval officers and ratings. But in his saga of the great BB (battleship) Bismarck, half the protagonists are German, and Forester's attempts at characterization lapse into caricature. The lines he has written for them are implausibly naive...