Word: naval
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Strain. Next day, Nixon was driven to Bethesda National Naval Medical Center for a 2½-hour physical examination, after which his doctor, Walter Tkach, declared that the President was in "excellent" condition. All of his tests showed results "within normal limits" and "there was no evidence whatsoever of any emotional strain...
...even more alluring. As head of the Church of England, Charles can only marry an Anglican. Would he renounce his throne for Roman Catholic Caroline? Or would she be converted? The answer from Buckingham Palace and Monaco's royal palace was unanimous: No. In fact, Charles, now on naval duty in the Far East, and Caroline, a student at a Paris convent school, have never met. -:Admirers of the 1930s movie Ecstasy liked the unadorned way Hedy Lamarr took to the water-but they might be surprised to learn that Hedy, now sixtyish, has genuine nautical skills...
...there. The youngest sailor is on his way to an eight-year prison term for trying to boost $40 from a collection box belonging to the favorite charity of the C.O.'s wife. The 'lifers" (career men) who have been assigned to escort him from the Norfolk naval base to the brig in Portsmouth, N.H., despise their job. No one is about to burst into a carefree song-and-dance number in the course of such a journey...
Until the mid-1950s, Russia maintained only a coastal-defense fleet. Since then, it has rapidly expanded its fleet, outbuilding the U.S. in naval vessels by a ratio of 8 to 1, and the Russian fleet of 221 major surface combat ships today sails all oceans of the world. For the most part, Russian vessels are younger than American ships (an average of about eight years v. about 18 years), and the Soviet guided-missile cruisers of the Kresta
...kinds of people, it seems, have been infected by Exorcist fever. Teenage girls on triple-tier wedgies teeter down the aisle behind pin-striped businessmen carrying briefcases. A silver-haired woman clutching a sandwich wrapped in waxed paper slides uneasily into a seat next to a middle-aged naval officer. Most audiences, however, tend to be young and to contain a far higher than average proportion of blacks and, in some cities, people of Spanish origin. "Voodoo, you know," a black file clerk said matter-of-factly...