Word: pearling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...since the days before Pearl Harbor had a President of the U.S. delivered himself of such gloomy forebodings on the state of the Union...
Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). "Alone No More": Russia is invaded, Pearl Harbor blitzed...
Warm Sound. Although Leontyne Price was familiar to Manhattan audiences as a concert and disk performer, she stepped on the operatic stage wrapped mainly in a glittering European reputation. Regally got up in golden headdress and pearl-spattered green gown, she floated onto a moonlit stage in the second scene of Act I and filled the house with warm and lustrous sound in her beautiful aria Tacea la notte. With a fine economy of gesture and movement throughout the long evening, she acted a passionate Leonora...
Halfway around the world, midway between the red mud of Vientiane and the white marble of Washington, in an ugly mustard-colored building squatting above the U.S. Naval Station at Pearl Harbor, the Laotian skirmishes became new red dots on a vast, well-dotted map of the Pacific frontier. In a windowless basement room that once served as a hospital morgue, Admiral Harry Donald Felt, U.S. Commander in Chief Pacific (CINCPAC), met with his staff for their briefing. Officers of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines mulled over the latest intelligence reports. Then the little man with the four...
...miles and 60 supply-ship days.) To make sense of it all, Don Felt leans heavily on a staff of 240 officers. A carefully chosen political adviser is always at his elbow. But from the carrier ready rooms in the South China Sea to the humming headquarters above Pearl Harbor, there is no doubt about who is "Mr. Pacific." "Mean as Hell." Don Felt starts the day at full throttle ("mean as hell," says an ex-aide), and never slows down. Traffic flows in and out of his office to the tune of his shouts. For a change of pace...