Word: saratoga
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Johnny Campo Jr. were the only juveniles tolerated on the grounds at Belmont, where in the late '60s her mother was the sole female groom. Suddenly widowed, Cornelia Hayward elected this hard and unfamiliar work out of a vague affection for horses, picked up during her girlhood in Saratoga Springs. But mostly it was a way of keeping Katrina with her all the time: they rose together at 4 and went off to brush the horses...
...public explanation was disarmingly simple: the Navy, U.S. officials said, was engaged in "a show of resolve" that it would not be deterred from operating in international waters. But the show was certainly impressive. The aircraft carriers Coral Sea and Saratoga, carrying about 100 supersonic aircraft, cruised toward the Gulf of Sidra off the coast of Libya. Sailing protectively with them were at least 23 auxiliary vessels from the U.S. Sixth Fleet. The jet fighters blasted off the carriers on patrols that seemed to edge ever closer to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's Soviet-armed nation...
...Stumped for a Christmas gift? Give a loved one a chapel, as Marylou Whitney gave her husband Sonny, so he might worship without leaving their Saratoga Springs, N.Y., estate. Or do as Washington Contractor Samuel Gessford did when he built five Philadelphia row houses for his homesick wife to look at. Mansions, yachts, planes--they are all among the grand gifts in Only the Best by Stuart E. Jacobson (Abrams; 216 pages; $35). In this celebration of the sumptuous, it is the odd items that twinkle brightest: a money clip from Jack Benny to George Burns ("I want the dollar...
Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, visiting Ottawa, stayed in close touch with Washington through secure communications aboard his Grumman executive jet. Meanwhile the Saratoga, accompanied by the Aegis-class guided-missile cruiser Yorktown, was steaming in the Adriatic close to the Greek-Albanian border. All told, about 25 U.S. warships were stationed in the eastern Mediterranean, many of them with the sophisticated radar capability needed to pick the EgyptAir plane out of the heavy stream of regular Mediterranean air traffic...
...Saratoga received the order to launch its Tomcats, four to undertake the interception and three as backup. Accompanied by two of the Hawkeye radar aircraft, the fighters loitered in the vicinity of Crete. At 4:37 p.m., they received the interception order. By 5:30, they had spotted the EgyptAir plane, and the final drama began. Back at his vacation home in Bar Harbor, Me., Defense Secretary Weinberger called the President at the White House to inform him of the mission's success...