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...landing craft that skittered across the water and up a Lake Erie beach last week looked like a product out of science fiction, a warship from some future conflict. Huge fans to port and starboard blasted downward into sand and foam; giant propellers in the stern shoved the vehicle along as it carted its cargo of armed marines through a mock invasion. The strange craft moved at speeds up to 80 m.p.h. without touching either land or water...
...sooner had Teddy floated his notion at a Boston news conference than he was caught up in a battle almost as fierce as that in which the Constitution sank the British warship Guerriere in 1812. Protested Massachusetts' Republican Senator Leverett Saltonstall: "We are proud of Old Ironsides, and she belongs in Boston." Said Boston Mayor John Collins: "There are too many risks in moving the vessel to New York." Cried the Boston Record-American: "The Constitution is too sacred a relic of our heritage to make it a road show." Joining the protests were the Greater Boston Chamber...
Sugar mills, bauxite mines, docks, railroads and airports shut down. Store owners covered their windows with strong wire mesh, British tommies went on alert, a British warship stood offshore, and police armed with bayonets patrolled the streets of Georgetown. At week's end Cheddi was desperately trying to negotiate a solution to the strike. It was doubtful whether he could get away for a trip to the U.S., where he was scheduled to appear before a United Nations committee studying British Guiana's case for full independence, and he was forced to send his regrets to the Winnipeg...
...Gaulle, naturally, paid no attention. His sense of grandeur wounded by a Brazilian ultimatum to clear French lobster boats out of Brazilian waters, he dispatched a warship to put an end to such nonsense. Brazil responded by canceling sailors' shore leaves, ordering units of its own fleet to sea. There was an uneasy stir in foreign ministries in Paris and Rio de Janeiro; among Brazilians there was talk of breaking diplomatic relations, even of asking the U.S. to invoke the Monroe Doctrine. Headlined Rio's O Dia: WAR IS IMMINENT...
...jokingly suggested trading design information on Soviet boosters for designs of U.S. nuclear submarines and Polaris missiles, both of which he said he admired. He added that he would not give 10 kopeks for a license covering the U.S. atomic aircraft carrier or. for that matter, any surface warship, which he considered obsolete and merely coffins for their crews...