Word: naval
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...refused to approve the sale. In December 1942, a member of the syndicate, Austin Businessman E. G. Kingsbery, met with Lyndon Johnson, then a 34-year-old Congressman. As Kingsbery remembered that meeting, Lyndon first reminded him that Kingsbery's son had obtained an appointment to the Naval Academy through Johnson's office. Said Lyndon: "Now, E.G., I'm not a lawyer or a newspaperman. I have no means of making a living. At one time I had a second-class teaching license, but it has long since expired. I understand you've bought the radio...
...deflation at Ben Cat seemed to snap South Viet Nam's war back into focus. Air and naval battles north of the 17th Parallel, major confrontations between Washington and Peking, all of that was in a different arena. There still remained the unspectacular, but key arena of South Viet Nam itself. In view of that fact, Premier Nguyen Khanh set out at week's end to reshape his Cabinet with an eye toward a more unified war effort. As U.S. Ambassador Maxwell D. Taylor flatly put it last week: "The status of the pacification program is uneven...
...ended up as a correspondent for Reuters news agency in Berlin and Moscow. Switching to high finance, Fleming worked six years as a stockbroker, even though "I never could figure out what a sixty-fourth of a point was." In the next six years of war, Fleming was in naval intelligence, and much of the first book was based on his wartime experiences. James Bond is a composite of commando and intelligence types Fleming knew. The big gambling scene in Casino Royale was suggested by a wartime encounter in Lisbon, when Fleming sat down opposite the top German agent...
...diplomat in Cyprus recently. .'Three times we held back the Turks, but I don't know if we can keep Turkey from coming in any longer." The words were prophetic, for last week the long expected Turkish intervention had begun. It was not the full-scale naval landing that some had feared; this still could come, but for now Turkey was sending its jet fighters across the narrow straits to blast limited Greek Cypriot targets...
...armed with machine pistols. Last week, as the President cruised along the reed-grown shores of Lake Nyasa and contemplated the 20-mm. Oerlikon cannon at his vessel's bow, he aptly expressed his nation's position. "I find great pleasure," Tomás proudly told his naval aides, "in crossing these Portuguese waters...