Word: shores
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Request for Boxer. Sunday evening, only some eight hours after Kennedy had given the final go-ahead, the expedition in the first dark was creeping toward the Cuban shore. In Bissel's office, there was a call on the White House line. It was Bundy, being even crisper than usual: The B-26s were to stand down, there was to be no air strike in the morning, this was a presidential order. Rusk was now acting for the President in the situation. Bissell was stunned. He and CIA Deputy Director General Charles Cabell, an experienced air man, went together...
Past midnight Bissell and Cabell restudied the battle plan while signals of consternation welled up from their men far to the south. At 4 o'clock, less than an hour before first light on the Cuban shore, Cabell went back to Rusk with another proposal. It was manifestly impossible for the Cuban Brigade's small force of B-26s (only 16 were operational) to provide effective air cover for the ships from their distant base. Cabell now asked whether, if the ships were to pull back to international water, the U.S.S. Boxer, a carrier on station about...
...number they were being forced back across the beach. There remained one last chance to make the thing go. Boxer was still on station. The release of a few of its jets simply for air cover should see two landing craft with ammunition and rations safely to the shore...
...Douglas Lake in northern Michigan, a crew of limnologists (the fresh-water equivalent of oceanographers) in a boat raised core samples from the bottom and tested the oxygen content of the deep. The results, carefully evaluated in the laboratory on shore, were disturbing. At 10,000 years of age, Douglas Lake was past its prime, and slowly dying. In a few more thousand years-a mere split-second in geological time-this haunt of fishermen will be gone, with nothing but a bog to mark its grave...
Beverly, Mass., North Shore Music Theater: Met Soprano Mary Curtis-Verna in The Great Waltz...