Word: yorktown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pivot." The battle lines for the Capes were sketched while George Washington was encamped in the Hudson Valley in even direr distress than at Valley Forge. Lord Cornwallis had taken Charleston and was moving up to fortify Yorktown...
...British when he was 25. From Washington, Lafayette and Rochambeau went a stream of messages to De Grasse, urging him to assert Franco-American naval supremacy somewhere along the coast. Washington favored New York, to clip General Clinton; Rochambeau favored the Chesapeake, to complete the investment of Cornwallis at Yorktown...
...about the schedules of such top executives as Chairman Thomas J. Watson Jr., who is often called on to attend board sessions and meet with financial advisers in Manhattan. But a trial run in 1961, when 200 executives and employees were temporarily moved into an IBM research center in Yorktown, N.Y., went so well that IBM became convinced that suburbia poses no insurmountable problems to its THiNKing force...
...time to pick up the echoes, which are then converted into electrical impulses and fed into an oscilloscope. More complex scanners can give the equivalent of a three-dimensional picture. On the oscilloscope screen, the ultrasound echoes make a picture that may look like Lord Cornwallis' breastworks at Yorktown. Additional circuitry can make the oscilloscope hold the picture long enough for the doctor to snap a photograph...
...Vice Admiral Roy L. Johnson, 58, new commander of the Seventh Fleet, patrolling the Chinese Communist mainland, succeeds Moorer. A handsome, icy-cool carrier officer, Johnson served aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise, the U.S.S. Yorktown and the U.S.S. Hornet. Promoted to flag rank when he was only 49, he became the first skipper of the U.S.S. Forrestal when it was the largest carrier in the world. "He set the pattern of how these ships should be operated," says one top Navy officer, "and it has stuck ever since...