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JOHN E. TENER Naval Weapons Laboratory Dahlgren...
Married. Romaine Dahlgren Pierce, 40, Manhattan model, ex-wife of the Marquess of Milford Haven; and James Busch Orthwein, 40, St. Louis adman, great-grandson of the original Gussie (Budweiser) Busch; she for the third time, he for the second; in Manhattan...
...Navy's radar scanners stationed at Dahlgren, Va., tracking a mouse is easy-if it is the right breed of mouse. Their latest achievement: spotting a speck of debris from the Transit II-A satellite, launched June 22, still floating 400 miles in space. The bits and pieces have been identified as a de-spin weight, about the size of two clenched fists, dangling at the end of an 8^½ft. braided cable a little thinner than a pencil. Hardly visible to the eye at 100 yds., its electrical properties make it easily spotted by radar...
...Annapolis, Md., 852 U.S. Naval Academy midshipmen (out of an original class of 1,123) got their diplomas in the traditional cap-tossing ceremonies in Dahlgren Hall. Not all were headed for the Navy; the Air Force took 221 as second lieutenants, the Marine Corps commissioned 63. Eight graduating middies got their degrees but no commissions. One man was dismissed for marrying against Academy regulations; four others were honorably discharged for medical reasons. Saddest of the eight were three midshipmen who will get no commissions until they are cleared by a tardy security investigation. Refusing to elaborate, a Navy spokesman...
...best man at the 1947 wedding of Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh, arrived back in England after an Italian holiday with Hungarian-born Cinemactress Eva Bartok (real name: Eva Szoke). Meanwhile, in Manhattan, the marchioness (the former Romaine Dahlgren Pierce ["Toodie"] Simpson, a Boston-bred divorcee) took legal steps leading to a divorce or separation suit. London reporters asked the marquess for comment on his wife's action, but it was too "difficult" for him to explain. As for Actress Bartok, he had met her a year ago, and "we . . . have been friendly ever since. That...