Word: patroling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that there had been "no bribery offered to a Canadian government official in connection with this program." With that disclaimer, Lockheed Aircraft Corp. and Canadian officials last week signed, on the second try, a $697 million deal under which Canada will buy 18 Orion-type planes for North Atlantic patrol and antisubmarine warfare. The sale is the biggest ever made in export markets by the floundering American manufacturer, and provides a badly needed boost to Lockheed's order book and its morale. For Canada, it is the first step in an overdue effort to strengthen its military contribution...
...next hours, local and state police scoured the area. FBI agents, alerted to a possible kidnaping, began pouring in, interviewing the parents of the 19 girls and seven boys who had vanished. Two California highway patrol helicopters joined the biggest search in the state's history...
...next morning, a red, white and blue Greyhound bus escorted by two highway patrol cars wheeled into Chowchilla with the 26 weary pupils and their driver. A couple of hundred joyous parents, friends and reporters greeted them with cheers, whistles and applause. Meanwhile, the police issued bulletins for three white males traveling in two vans...
...attitude than actuality. There was sufficient reality, however, that young Wilson could learn seamanship aboard the family yacht. When the U.S entered World War II, he won a quick commission in the Coast Guard, and served eventually as commanding officer of a converted trawler assigned to the dangerous Greenland patrol. He learned to be a good skipper under the contemptuous eye of a great skipper, and one of his lessons was that he must make do with ability that stopped short of brilliance...
...hundred or so pages that take Wilson through his Coast Guard years would make a fine short sea novel. The writing, in general, is dogged, honest and unbrilliant, and to chronicle the Greenland patrol, those qualities are sufficient. The sea supplies the power and depth missing in his dry-land work, just as similar sagas of water and war have served other journeymen writers well...