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...escort dutifully took up station a mile astern, rolling gently in the huge carrier's wake. At midday, when the Forrestal catapulted her Phantom jets into clearing skies, the escort drew alongside to within 50 yards of the carrier. But not a signal was exchanged. The escort vessel was Russian, a super gunboat of the Mirka class, and the Forrestal had not invited her to tag along...
...recent weeks, the Soviets have put yet another x into the equation. To the Soviet eskadra (squadron) in the Mediterranean, which has numbered as many as 52 ships, including two cruisers, ten submarines and six intelligence-collecting trawlers, the Russians added an entirely new kind of vessel on the face of the oceans-a multipurpose, missile-firing helicopter carrier. The Russians so far have built no Western-style aircraft carriers because they consider them vulnerable to missile attack. In stead, into the Mediterranean glided the Moskva, a sleek 25,000-ton vessel that combines the features of a cruiser...
...have known will survive. When this generation of hierarchy passes away (old cardinals don't really live forever, they just seem to), it will have to be replaced by a group of men who can sell their ideas. If the bark of Peter is to be a living vessel rather than a historical oddity, direction from the top must give way to a 'reasoning together...
...Eleftheroupolis against its pier near the Nha Be tank farm southeast of Saigon, Despite the constant allied watch on shipping along the entire 30-mile length of the Long Tau channel, which links Saigon and the sea, a Viet Cong frogman had attached a 100-lb. charge to the vessel's anchor chain. Damage was minor: one compartment was ruptured, but the jet fuel inside did not ignite...
...such an ethereal, yet commanding, picture. Looming above the onlooker, Pontormo's Angel Gabriel is shown as a dissipated Florentine gallant with an exquisite shell-pink ear, hennaed locks and a flattened head. As for the Virgin Mary, she is both innocent and sophisticated, a strangely languorous vessel of the Lord, whose fashionable lilac coif emits a greenish, phosphorescent glow...