Word: shippings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good 1,600 miles southeastward from Florida last week, watchers aboard the Navy's salvage ship Escape spotted a white object as it hurtled out of the sky and plunged into the Atlantic. It was the nose cone of a Jupiter IRBM, launched only minutes earlier from a pad at the Cape Canaveral missile test center. Hoisted aboard Escape, the recovered cone proved that the Army had solved both the reentry problem and the accuracy problem. Hitting the target area at a range of 1,600 miles was a feat of marksmanship considerably more remarkable than nicking a dime...
...Charles Malik sent a note to Cairo charging "massive interference" by Syrian and Palestinian infiltrators, including some 30 fedayeen raiders caught coasting up to Lebanon in small boats from the Gaza Strip. As the riots raged on, the U.S. Sixth Fleet stood into the eastern Mediterranean, a U.S. cargo ship fetched 14 Americans unscathed from battered Tripoli, and U.S. Air Force transports roared into Beirut with tear gas and small-arms ammunition. "We are determined to help this government maintain internal security," said U.S. Ambassador Robert McClintock...
...hardest-working candidate of all, and the one with most at stake, was handsome former Premier Constantine Karamanlis, 51. Despite fever, coughs and stomachaches, he had traveled some 4,000 miles across Greece by plane, train, ship and car, raised his stentorian voice in all but six of the 55 electoral districts in Greece. Karamanlis had brought on the new elections himself by resigning his premiership as an answer to dissidents in his own party whose defection cost him his parliamentary majority. Under a caretaker government appointed by his strong supporter King Paul. Karamanlis helped ram through a new electoral...
...cargo of throneless royalty from the same country. In Manhattan the 72-ft. gaff-rigged ketch Saltillo arrived from Nassau, skippered by strapping Don Juan de Bourbon y Battenberg, Count of Barcelona and 44-year-old Pretender to the Spanish crown. In Norfolk, Va. the four-masted training ship Juan Sebastian Elcano put into port with a crew of 72 midshipmen from the Spanish Naval College at Pontevedra, among them the Pretender's handsome son, Prince Juan Carlos, 20. It was the son who attracted most attention. Tall (6 ft. 2 in.), tanned, with close-cropped hair, Juan Carlos...
Righetti refused to go. "A captain does not abandon his ship,'' he declared. "A soldier does not leave the battlefield. I will not abandon my church." The masons came anyway and walled up the door with bricks, shutting Righetti inside...