Word: stettin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contributed funds to the Winston Churchill Memorial- at Fulton, Mo., commemorating the historic 1946 "Sinews of Peace" speech at Westminster College, in which Churchill urged the Western world to close ranks again in the face of a threat to peace as formidable as any it had yet seen: "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent." Duty Done. One of the few statesmen to achieve undisputed immortality in his lifetime, Sir Winston is perhaps the only world leader who has ever written history as memorably as he made...
...test pilot stationed in northeast Poland, Major Obacz received official clearance to log extra flight time by flying his family to visit relatives in Szczecin (formerly Stettin), on the East German border. Obacz crammed his wife and two sons, Lester, 9, and Christopher, 5, into the rear seat of a prop-driven, two-seater training plane. Only after they were aloft did he tell them-over the plane's intercom-that he was making a break. To avoid Communist radar detection, he hedgehopped over the ground, never flew higher than 150 ft. throughout the entire 150-mile trip. When...
...Kids Get Hungry." Inevitably, the call-up worked personal hardships. In the town of Stettin (pop. 4,141), Captain Raymond Ott cancelled plans for expanding his milk franchise: "I'll just have to teach my wife Rosemary how to keep the business going until we get back. But this is what we signed up for-to take care of emergencies. It looks like we got an emergency...
...Guns & Men. The Naples shipments are only a trickle compared to what Castro gets from Czechoslovakia, the Soviet bloc's export arsenal. By the end of August 1960, Czech-made R-2 .30-cal. rifles and other arms began leaving Stettin and Gdynia on Poland's Baltic coast in such quantity that Castro's Red-made arsenal doubled in two months, is now valued at more than $300 million. With the equipment came the experts; some estimates put the number at 3,000 from Czechoslovakia and Russia, including 17 jet pilots. In return, scores of Cuban cadets...
Although every Communist propagandist from Stettin to Pyongyang stressed the peaceful purposes of the Pacific tests, the shots would have obvious military value. If the Russians fired into the Central Pacific from their bases near the Caspian and Aral seas, they would be testing at 7,700-mile range plus as compared with the best 6,300-mile range of the U.S.'s Atlas, hence nailing down a longer strategic reach. If the Russians fired into the Central Pacific from Kamchatka at 3,800-mile range, they would at least be testing out their capabilities in a range bordered...