Word: naval
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...misgivings, can only support the French position. He seems equally sure that the U.S. will head off any General Assembly debate on the base at Bizerte lest it give an opportunity to Cuba's Fidel Castro, backed by the Soviet Union, to sound off about the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo...
...four men are tagged with the fatal word. Danny Kaye is referred to as an "old (48) Mittyslicker." Admiral Arleigh Burke, retiring while still capable of exercising his wit, is dubbed the "old king of the cans (59)." And Prince Philip, of all people, turns up as an "old Naval person"-a title hitherto reserved for one whose undeniable claims upon it were immortalized by his correspondence with an American president...
Loyalty Spurned. Frostily, De Gaulle replied that France would not negotiate under threats. Instead of backing down in humiliation, Bourguiba gave France 24 hours to talk terms. From the Tunisian Parliament he won unanimous approval for a blockade of the Bizerte naval base. For good measure, he put in his claim for a piece of the Sahara. Tunisia is a small country, with only 3.7 million people, compared with Algeria's ten million and Morocco's 11.6 million. But Bourguiba was anxious for his share, fearing that France might be getting ready to give the whole thing...
...current scene." Later the vigorous vintage soldier offered his impressions of the onetime sailor in the White House: "He seems to have changed very little since he was one of my PT-boat commanders in the Pacific war. He was a good one, too-a brave and resourceful young naval officer. But, judging from the luncheon he served me today [pièce de résistance: Cornish hen; dessert: omelette surprise]," added MacArthur, "he is living somewhat higher...
...French cuisine of the New Frontier may have claimed a Republican victim. Shortly after Jacqueline Kennedy's Mount Vernon fête champêtre (TIME, July 21), Senate Minority Leader Everett McKinley Dirksen, 65, a cornbred Illinoisan, checked into Bethesda Naval Hospital for treatment of a reactivated peptic ulcer that had been quiescent for many years...