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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...return of Pueblo's crew five months ago backed the Pentagon into a cruel corner. Navy regulations and service sentiment seemed heavily in favor of punishing Commander Lloyd M. Bucher, and perhaps others, for allowing the vessel and her secret documents to fall into hostile hands without a serious attempt at resistance or destruction. To most of the public, though, Pueblo's skipper and crew were heroes who had suffered and survived eleven months of North Korean brutality. They were not for hanging. Last week Navy Secretary John Chafee steered between the reefs of opinion and proceeded...
Unanswered Questions. Perhaps the two men will, but the questions raised by the Pueblo incident will remain. One of the most difficult is what should be done about the Military Code of Conduct. In the wake of the forced confessions of the Pueblo crew, many now think that the code is worthless when applied under cold war conditions. However, S.L.A. Marshall, the military historian and retired general who was one of the chief architects of the code, says that a false conclusion is being drawn. Writing in a recent New Leader, he argues that the code actually requires prisoners...
...take any flight that comes along," said the crew-cut Navy captain. "The sooner I get off the ground the better." Alan Shepard Jr.'s eagerness was understandable. Exactly eight years ago last week, he had blasted off aboard the Freedom 7 Mercury capsule to become the nation's first man in space. But an inner-ear ailment grounded him late in 1964 and he has been holding down a NASA desk job ever since. Now after surgery, Shepard, 45, has been pronounced fit for space travel once again, possibly aboard a moon-bound Apollo sometime next year...
Eliot tied Winthrop in the tennis competition, with Quincy a very close third. These same three houses were also the top point-getters in the track meet last Friday. The Jumbos will try to add the "A" crew title to their collection today. "The finals will start around finish," Wilson said...
...Mayor's Trophy Game. And didn't the Yankees win the World Series, and didn't the Mets establish themselves in the league cellar? Parker went to Penn in the old days, and he knew that the whole situation just wasn't right, so he sent his crew out Saturday to restore a little sanity to the athletic picture...