Word: naval
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Lieutenant Carter's naval career ended abruptly in 1953 when his father died. Jimmy was needed at home to run the family peanut and fertilizer business. He regretted leaving the Navy, but he was also nursing ambitions for public office. Back home, he immersed himself in farming; he attended classes on farming, devoured books, sought advice from U.S. agricultural agents. Impatient to expand, he invested in a peanut sheller and began to supply large processors; then he branched out into warehousing. (Last year the income from the farm and the warehouse totaled $44,523; his net worth is estimated...
...fleet's admirals deploy the world's largest naval force. The Soviets enjoy clear superiority in attack submarines (253 v. 73), cruisers and destroyers armed with ship-to-ship missiles (40 v. 0) and supply ships (2,358 v. 1,009). The Soviet navy, however, would have trouble rushing troops and planes to intervene in sudden political or military crises far from the U.S.S.R. The U.S. has more bases abroad and can act quickly because of its 14 attack carriers (the Soviets have none), 1,309 Navy fighter planes (v. none for the Soviets) and nearly...
Unless the fishing-rights dispute is resolved, Iceland might withdraw from NATO and rip up bilateral agreements with Washington that allow the U.S. to maintain a naval airbase at Keflavik. The base is a key NATO installation; its facilities include long-range aircraft, radar, ICBM warning and tracking systems and ELINT (electronic intelligence) units. U.S. surveillance aircraft fly from Keflavik to monitor Soviet surface and submarine traffic in the North Atlantic...
...other NATO nations have been trying behind-the-scenes to ease the crisis, without much success The Icelanders are not willing to compromise. As Prime Minister Hallgrimsson told TIME Correspondent Christopher Byron last week, "We are not in the mood for negotiations while British naval vessels are still in our waters...
Harvard's swordsmen placed a dull seventh in overall team competition, yet dueled their way to a very respectable second spot in foils competition at the 79th Annual Intercollegiate Fencing Association tournament at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland this past weekend...