Word: coralled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Britain announced plans for a new steppingstone in the Indian Ocean: the island of Gan in the Maldives, a group of coral islands (pop. 93,000) some 400 miles southwest of Ceylon whose sultans have basked under the protection of the British navy since 1795. The rent (amount undisclosed) Britain has agreed to pay for Gan should provide a long-needed shot in the arm to the all but dormant Maldivian economy (now mainly dependent on shipments of fish to Ceylon). As for Britain's chances of hanging on to her new base-"It is difficult," said...
...Very Unsettling." Admiral Brown's Sunday punch is Task Force 60, built around the 45,000-ton attack carrier Coral Sea with some 100 planes, the 40,000-ton Randolph with 80 planes, the heavy cruisers Salem and Macon, and about twelve destroyers. Task Forces 61 and 62 are amphibious groups that can put ashore a reinforced Marine battalion that will soon be equipped with atomic rocket weapons. Task Force 66, recently detached, but on constant call, is a submarine hunter-killer group led by Antietam, a 30,000-ton attack carrier with 80 planes. All together, this taut...
...meaning that he is trained to handle atomic bombs. As of now, Admiral Brown's attack squadrons, paced by prop-driven Douglas AD Skyraiders, can deliver a low-level atomic attack at ranges up to 1,000 miles. Late this month the 60,000-ton Forrestal will relieve Coral Sea, bringing to the Mediterranean the Douglas A3D Skywarrior, a 600-m.p.h. twin-jet bomber with a range that can reach all the way to Moscow, if necessary, from anywhere in the Eastern Mediterranean...
...Coral Browne's Lady Macbeth also lacked depth, and failed in the sleepwalking scene. Yet, if theatrical, she was often commandingly so. And the two together went far beyond mere partnership in crime. Theirs was a fierce connubial bond that helped humanize a woman who all but lacks humanity and a man who all but loses...
...determined to support themselves, jammed the school of design. The Union's reading room was the city's first free public library. Its evening lectures (in 1863. there were six on government, four on political economy, ten on the American Revolution, and, for some reason, one on coral and coral islands) were for thousands of workers their first glimpse of education...