Word: naval
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, 52, new Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet, succeeding Sharp. Alabama-born Tommy Moorer, known in Pentagon corridors as "the man you always send for when you have a tough job," is already an odds-on favorite with many a top officer to become Chief of Naval Operations one day. "Hell," says one, "you could tell that when he was still at the academy." Assigned to the Pentagon in late 1960, Moorer sometimes exasperated Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and his computer-minded whiz kids (whom he was fond of calling "the numbers-racket people"), and sometimes...
...Callahan, 58, Jesuit priest aboard the carrier U.S.S. Franklin when it was set afire by Kamikaze pilots off Japan on March 19, 1945, who gave last rites, organized rescue parties, carried ammunition from blistering magazines, helped make it back to port with the heaviest casualty list in U.S. naval history (432 dead, 1,000 wounded), winner of the only Congressional Medal of Honor ever awarded to a chaplain; of a ruptured aorta; in Worcester, Mass...
From the Aegean island of Tenos, Greece's Lourdes, a sacred, jewel-encrusted ikon of the Virgin Mary, which is believed to work miracles, was sped by naval destroyer and limousine to the King's sickroom. Briefly Paul rallied...
...invasion of Cyprus unless the Turkish Cypriots were in danger of being wiped out. Moreover, last week elements of the U.S. Sixth Fleet had joined the Turkish navy in NATO maneuvers that seemed more for the purpose of keeping an eye on Turkey's intentions than for perfecting naval tactics...
...unsuccessful campaign to pressure the caretakers out by cutting off their water and electricity. For Russia it was injury added to insults. Albania's Red Boss Enver Hoxha once called Nikita Khrushchev a "revisionist" to his face, and reportedly ordered Soviet submarines out of Albania's naval base. In Moscow, Russian officialdom squealed like stuck imperialists, complained that the Albanians "trample underfoot the elementary standards of international law." What's more, said Moscow, Albanians are Indian givers, since the buildings "stand on territory presented by the Albanian government as a gift." Gift, shmift, sniffed Tirana-reporting that...