Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Testifying before the Russell-chaired Armed Services Committee, Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh ("31 Knot") Burke views the House-revised defense reorganization bill from his own bridge, endorses two House changes sharply limiting the Defense Secretary's authority over the services-changes that Commander in Chief Eisenhower had rapped as a "legalized bottleneck" and an "endorsement of duplication and standpattism" (TIME. June...
After a day's liberty in Guantánamo city, eleven uniformed, unarmed U.S. marines and 17 equally inoffensive U.S. sailors climbed aboard their chartered bus one night last week for the 15-mile ride back to the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo Bay. The Cuban driver swung out of town, and the bus bucketed along the narrow muddy road. Suddenly the headlights picked up a band of armed men. Guerrilla fighters in Cuban Rebel Chieftain Fidel Castro's 19-month-old uprising against Dictator Fulgencio Batista, they climbed aboard the bus and ordered the driver...
...rebels turned to the wife of one of the engineers, said: "They'll be treated well and returned in a few days." He said the reasons for the kidnaping were U.S. support of the Batista regime in general and the refueling of Cuban military planes at the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo Bay in particular...
White Water. The start off Newport came in a spanking northwester, and a too-daring majority of crews broke out their spinnakers. The billowing kites caught more wind than they could handle. The U.S. Naval Academy's 44-ft. yawl Fearless was knocked down and her decks rolled under white water until she finally worked free. The 45-ft. sloop Sirius lost her spinnaker over the side and caught the waterlogged tangle with her keel. Two days later the Finisterre had spinnaker trouble too. Despite an elaborate net of lines designed to keep it from fouling, the soaring, cranky...
...Finisterre's Mitchell was convinced that Designer Stephens had put something special into the sleek hull that has carried him to so many victories. Said he: "Every once in a while a boat comes along that seems to go faster and do better than the naval architects say is possible. It must be some kind of an X factor, an extra. I guess Finisterre is one of those fortunate boats...