Word: sixths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...west of the beach, aboard the mighty 60,000-ton supercarrier Saratoga, pride of the Sixth Fleet, the Navy's job for the day was to pound Douglas AD Skyraider bombers and Chance Vought F8U1 Crusader fighters out of steam catapults into a Mediterranean haze amid jet engine roars, catapult cracks, clouds of hissing white steam. The mission: to show the silver of Navy air power over Lebanon. But Saratoga's jet pilots, like all Navy pilots off Lebanon, got word to steer clear of a certain point just south of the predominantly Moslem port of Tripoli. Reason...
...elements of Admiral Holloway's power: 6,100 marines and 3,100 Army airborne troops, installed on a secure beachhead equipped to shoot anything from obsolete Mi rifles to atomic-rocket projectiles; the 76-ship, 35,000-man Sixth Fleet offshore, whose Skyraiders could take an A-bomb from Beirut to Moscow; the Air Force Tactical Air Command's 200-plane composite task force-Douglas B66 and Martin 6-57 light jet bombers. North American F-iooD fighter-bombers and McDonnell F-IOI fighters-at nearby Adana, Turkey, an atomic-and conventional-armed reminder of the mighty, miles...
...deterred by Russian rocket rattling from deploying into the Middle East, and Middle East military men could not help noticing that the Russians had notably not intervened. To Nasser, in Moscow after the Iraq revolt last fortnight, Khrushchev boasted that he had weapons that could turn the Sixth Fleet into "coffins of molten steel for its sailors," but Khrushchev's Security Chief Ivan Serov nonetheless warned Nasser to fly home overland, because "your plane dare not fly over the sea because they could shoot it down with rockets...
Airlift to Amman. From nearby Cyprus, British transport planes airlifted 2,000 red-bereted troops of Britain's 16th parachute brigade, the "Red Devils," with 50 jets from the U.S. Sixth Fleet flying cover. Both Hussein and his people, who are as Arab as Nasser, appeared embarrassed to have the British "colonials" back: the Red Devils were confined behind barbed wire at the Amman airport. But not only was Hussein's throne shaking; the economy of Jordan was near collapse. Jordan's oil supplies were snapped off when the rebels seized Iraq, and queues lined Amman...
Hopkins' famed Dr. Alfred Blalock and later surgeons, the change seen in him was the same: he turned from blue to pink while still on the operating table. On the sixth day he was walking. Now, five months after the operation, Kent is riding a two-wheeler. His heart, instead of growing bigger but weaker, seems actually to be smaller and stronger. Like the dog that had the same operation 3½ years ago, Kent can run and jump with the rest, no longer turns blue except after truly strenuous exercise...