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...Italy, on an inspection tour of U.S. Navy installations, Secretary of the Navy Dan Kimball stopped off at the summer papal palace at Castel Gandolfo, was received with his wife and staff by Pope Pius...
...Denver, the first stop on his tour, Stevenson was greeted at the airport by Colorado's Republican Governor Dan Thornton, who was sporting an Ike button. In a dinner speech, Stevenson delivered a graceful rewrite of Harry Truman's Labor Day strictures against...
...George Rickover, an Annapolis graduate (1922) and an electrical engineer. Six years ago Rickover sparked planning for an atomic submarine. Last June, when Harry Truman laid the keel of the first atomic-powered submarine, Rickover was publicly praised as the man chiefly responsible for its existence. Later, Navy Secretary Dan Kimball pinned the Legion of Merit on Rickover, said he had done "the most important piece of development work ... in the history of the Navy." Two weeks ago a isman Navy selection board met in Washington to choose 30 new rear admirals. Rickover's name was passed over. Selection...
Calif., Mountain Climber Dan O'Neill...
Navy Secretary Dan Kimball last week officially confirmed the unofficial guesses that the Navy's famed Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket had hit a top speed close to 1,300 m.p.h. on its record-breaking flight a year ago (TIME, July 16, 1951). The precise figure: 1,238 m.p.h. The record was made in level flight at the top of the plane's run. The Skyrocket's altitude record, made on another flight...