Word: naval
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fail to see how the nations that recently met at Belgrade, Yugoslavia [Sept. 15], can call themselves "neutral" when they see colonialism in Algeria, Angola and Guantánamo Naval Base without also seeing it in Albania, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Rumania, Poland, Estonia, Hungary, Tibet, North Korea, Latvia, Lithuania and Mongolia...
...Karim's 15 ton cabin cruiser Taara, the pair suddenly found themselves lodged high and wet on a well-marked reef near Corsica's Gulf of Ajaccio. After the Taara was towed ashore, the Harvard-educated prince was informed by a local yachtsman that a French naval yard near by had facilities to repair the boat's mashed propellers, "but they won't help you because it's a military base." Karim's response-"I am Prince Karim, the Aga Khan"-changed the tune, and next day, with the Taara seaworthy once more, Karim...
Died. Admiral DeWitt Clinton Ramsey, 72, vintage naval aviator who bossed the Bureau of Aeronautics during World War II, served as Vice Chief of Naval Operations from 1946 to 1948; of Parkinson's disease: in Philadelphia...
Surrounding himself with high, authentic brass, Zanuck cocks an Ikelike ear and listens to the advice of such aides as French General Pierre Koenig, German Admiral Friedrich Ruge (Rommel's sometime naval attache), and dozens of American officers. Drawing on his resources, Darryl Zanuck has also called in 22 ships from the U.S. Sixth Fleet, the ist Airborne Battle Group of the U.S. 5°5th Infantry, and the ist Battle Group of the U.S. 6th Infantry (authorized by the Department of Defense). A direct telephone line to the Army groups' headquarters in Germany is kept open...
...notion of business games was borrowed from the war games developed by the U.S. Naval War College, and has been fanned to a hot flame by the development of the digital computer. In the typical business game, from two to 20 players are assigned to a mythical company and given data on assets, production, prices, advertising, market conditions. Then they are let loose to make decisions in competition with other teams-and to make their firms grow...