Word: chenango
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week, 16 years after the Solomons, Don Felt got another big moment in the Pacific. In the years between, he had won the Legion of Merit commanding the light carrier Chenango off Okinawa (1945), worked up through the postwar Pentagon and carrier commands to boss the Mediterranean Sixth Fleet (1956), pinned on his fourth star as Admiral Arleigh Burke's Vice Chief of Naval Operations (1956-58). Last week he was named Commander in Chief, Pacific, with 500,000 men, 400 ships, 2,500 planes, to do the job of deploying U.S. power and backstopping U.S. diplomacy from...
...Says he: "At first, I couldn't get anything through. And then I found out what the trouble was. Among those upstate Republicans, a Republican from the city was considered worse than a Democrat. After I told them my father came from Madison County and my mother from Chenango County, everything was fine...
...vanished. Even a dirty screen on the photo-lab window did not blot out the luminous formation near the power plant smokestacks (see cut). ¶ Flying over Greenfield, Ind., an airline pilot reported a brilliant green, tear-shaped light "going like a bat out of hell." ¶ In Chenango County, N.Y., citizens gathered in crowds to watch a "whole flotilla of bright, shiny balls moving rapidly in a northerly direction." Jet fighters scrambled from Griffiss Air Force Base in Rome. N.Y., but found nothing. ¶ Over the AEC's atomic laboratory at Los Alamos. N.M., observers watched a shiny...