Word: squadronal
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...driving organizer, a demon for efficiency and an able politician. He had done time in almost every branch of his service-aviation, destroyers, gunnery schools-and everywhere he was known as a man with a single-minded urge to get things done. At Pearl Harbor in 1941, his patrol squadron was one of the few loaded with bombs and ready to fight back against the Japanese. He was executive officer of the aircraft carrier Hancock when she was blasted by a Japanese kamikaze, won the Silver Star for getting fires under control and repairing the flight deck in time...
...York Yacht Club accepted the challenge of Australia's Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron for an America's Cup match in the summer of 1962. But, recognizing Britain's role as a repeated Cup challenger (14 of 16 previous matches, with Canada a two-timer), the yacht club trustees endorsed a proposal by the Duke of Edinburgh that the next challenge be a joint Commonwealth enterprise. If Australia is agreeable, elimination matches will be held among Commonwealth nations, with the winner to meet the U.S.'s 12-meter champion...
...Soviet missiles. Similarly the funds requested for building heavily reinforced SAGE control centers made little sense since the "hardening" could not be completed before the bomber threat had become a missile threat. He still had confidence in the Bomarc B, White said, and proposed to activate the first squadron next March, continue to buy until early 1962, when he would have 200 missiles tied into the SAGE net in the industrial Northeast and North Central states. To make up the difference in defenses against manned bombers, he promised to plug gaps in the three-year-old Distant Early Warning...
...that the spray was flying across the island like a flock of sea gulls." And last week, when the storm was even higher. Father Abbot Samson Wicksteed, 36, a wartime radioman in an R.A.F. bomber, led husky Brother Joseph, ex-Barrister Brother Thomas and wiry Father Anthony (an R.A.F. squadron leader in the Battle of Britain and D.S.O. winner) once again into the gale. This time there was also a bottle of rum in the tea chest...
...feudal kingdom of Afghanistan (pop. 13 million). The Afghans, bordered by both the Soviet Union and Red China, are uncommitted in the cold war and wooed with aid from both the Soviets and the U.S. Even as Ike's plane winged over the mountains, an Afghan squadron of Russian-made MIGs took off to escort him toward Kabul, and Ike landed at an airfield built by Russians. There, in the freezing morning, khaki-clad King Mohammed Zahir greeted the President and his party...