Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...provocation was the interruption of five of twelve U.S.-owned transatlantic cables-four owned by Western Union, the fifth by American Telephone and Telegraph Co.-in the short period of five days. All the interruptions, or cuts, occurred in about the same spot, in the icy seas some 195 miles northeast of St. John's, Newfoundland. Around that spot, Navy patrols reported, only one ship was operating: the Russian fishing trawler Novorossisk...
...Convention. Hours after the fourth cable break, Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh Burke called in half a dozen members of his staff and laid out the story. That morning, A.T. & T. had sent a plane over the trouble spot, dropped a note on the Novorossisk's deck: YOU HAVE CUT THE CABLE FOUR TIMES: STOP FISHING HERE AND GO SOUTH. The trawler moved a few miles. Burke's Judge Advocate General, Rear Admiral Chester Ward, then made a precedent-setting proposal: Send a Navy party aboard the Russian ship. Lawyer Ward cited an international covenant, signed by Czarist...
...pamphlet put out by the tourist office called it "Nyasaland-Darkest Africa in Fairest Mood." But in this fair spot last week the mood could not have been darker. Each day the upland country of clear lakes, sun-splashed valleys and misty mountaintops saw fresh upheavals, and the violence echoed beyond its borders. Not since Britain in 1953 merged Nyasaland with the two Rhodesias-forming a Central African Federation larger than California, Texas and New York combined-has there been such turmoil. And it seemed to be only beginning...
...present any threats to passengers, but might endanger mechanics who were exposed to it for long periods while servicing the plane. Though the Public Health Service had not yet decided what precautions should be taken, Pan Am washed down the rest of its jets, may institute a system of spot checking jet flights for any trace of radioactivity...
...Crimson's weak spot has been the epee, but they have only lost once to Yale in this event since Edo Marion has been coach...