Word: patroling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world beneath, a world where time itself hung motionless. Aboard were 16 Polaris missiles-with a total destructive power greater than all the bombs exploded in World War II. The Ethan Allen, on what its captain called "a full wartime footing," was setting out on its regular 60-day patrol...
...nine deployed Polaris submarines, the Ethan Allen and five others were on patrol last week. That two-thirds ratio is standard-although during the height of the Cuba crisis, all nine were ordered to sea. The location of the subs on patrol is known only to a small circle of top military and Government leaders. All that most of the crewmen and officers know is that they are somewhere within their missiles' 1,500-mile range of Soviet targets...
Manning the Ethan Allen was its "Blue Crew"; the Polaris submarines two-platoon their crews, and the alternate "Gold Crew" was now at New London, Conn. For Polaris crewmen a patrol starts with a change into a special navy-blue Dacron and cotton coverall. The coverall reduces lint in the closed environment, has no cuffs or belts to get tangled in gear. "But," complains one officer, "it's next to impossible to go to the head in this outfit without dunking part...
...20th Precinct. Manhattan, checked in at the station house to pick up a spare passenger, then set off on a routine night patrol that included aiding an arrest, family squabbles, a threatened knife skirmish, and a checkup on two youthful narcotics users. Nobody recognized the "detective" in dark glasses and a borrowed fedora, even though his framed portrait hung on the wall in one shabby basement apartment. It was Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr., 41, prowling the streets incognito with New York's Finest. "He was interested mostly in the kids," reported Patrolman Thomas Gannon. "He said it looked...
...Segregation Forever." Faced with a $2.2 million deficit in the current fiscal year. Governor Wallace has announced an austerity program. He has ordered the two yachts sold and the gubernatorial air force abolished, has even directed the highway patrol to halt cars bearing official license plates to make sure that the cars are being used solely for state business...