Word: naval
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tried three times to get Meredith registered; it had failed three times. Now it set out on a fourth attempt, and Attorney General Kennedy upped the escorting force level to two dozen marshals. Late in the week they set out in a motor caravan from the U.S. naval air station at Memphis, Tenn., 80 miles from Oxford. But Barnett, meanwhile, had also mustered stronger forces...
Snoop Ships & Subs. The new "fishing port" will be, in fact, a Soviet naval base. It will supply and repair the Soviet snoop ships, eliminate the need for their long trips home. The equipment required to maintain this fleet can be used just as well to service submarines and torpedo boats. Said New York's Republican Senator Kenneth Keating: "If we fall for this new bait, we will be the biggest suckers of them...
Boon v. Boondoggles. The two disagree on everything else. Breeding seems unworried about Cuba ("I go along pretty strongly with what President Kennedy's doing about Cuba"); Dole argues for action ("I think a naval blockade has possible merit, and I'm concerned about any thought that the Monroe Doctrine may be outmoded"). On domestic economic issues, Breeding has voted with the Kennedy Administration. Dole has not. Says he: "No Kennedy leader has mentioned the possibility of reducing a program, any federal program. They want a $900 million boondoggle on public works. They've added...
...judge in England and--the proper Shavian combination--a silly old fool.] Sir Howard, naturally, is one of Lady Cicely's first successful take-over bids, and Barstow succumbs with the proper air of well-bred petulance. Then there's Robert Chapman, who, as Captain Hamlin Kearney (an American naval officer devised to fill up the last act), suffers such an astounding sea change as to be almost unrecognizable. Kearney is the last of Lady C's successes, and when Chapman surrenders, you know she has conquered the salt-bitten gallantry of the entire U.S. Navy...
...cultural troupe of the People's Navy offered a historical drama, "Naval Battle of 1894 Sino-Japanese War." Peking Review describes it in one convoluted sentence: "Despite the bravery of its men, the Peiyang Squadron of the Chinese Navy is defeated by the Japanese fleet as a result of the betrayal of the capitulationist clique of the Ching court working in collusion with foreign imperialists...