Word: naval
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...departure, 134 years after the first French soldiers landed, was the last step of France's retreat from Algeria-well, almost the last. Some French troops still remain at the big Mers-el-Kebir naval base and at Saharan bases, but Ben Bella promised his countrymen that a "solution will be found...
...recently recommended that $333 million be spent on the design and construction of deep-diving submarines capable of exploring the bottom and doing useful work at extreme depths. And in response to the growing demand from both Government and industry, the drawing boards of the nation's naval architects are producing a fleet of small, odd-looking submarines, most of them aimed at great depths...
...only guess at the motives behind Castro's new militancy. The U-2 complaint may be part of a buildup for aggression charges that Castro threatens to bring against the U.S. at the U.N. As if to broaden his case, Castro again charged U.S. Marines at the Guantanamo naval base with "outrages and provocations," including throwing rocks across the border fence and urinating on a Cuban flagpole. But no one could rule out the possibility that Castro gunners might actually take a shot at a U.S. plane...
...Level. The Miami-to-Nassau race is practically a Bertram monopoly. Bertram won it with Moppie in 1960, the first year he ever entered, and his boats have won it each year since. Key to his success is the unique hull design of his boats, brainchild of famed Boston Naval Architect Ray Hunt. Most powerboats are sharply V'd at the bow, but the hull flattens out to provide a smooth "planing" surface near the stern. In the Bertrams, the "deep V" runs all the way aft to the transom, and the smooth sides of their hulls are broken...
Commander Samuel Francis du Pont helped set up the Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1845, and during the Civil War led the task force that took Port Royal, S.C., for the North. Artillery Major Henry Algernon du Pont got the Congressional Medal of Honor for distinguished gallantry in the Shenandoah Valley. Henry du Pont (1812-89) had a thing about fences; folks used to say that he would put up a $4,000 enclosure to fence in a $2,000 pasture. And then there was "Uncle Fred" (Alfred Victor du Pont II), who in 1893 was shot to death...