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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, nearly eight months after Norton Sound (a 15,000-ton converted seaplane tender) steamed out of Port Hueneme, the world finally learned where she went and what she did. Warily, the Defense Department confirmed the New York Times's story (see PRESS) that the missile ship had fired three nuclear-armed rockets 300 miles into space in what one enthusiast called "the greatest scientific experiment ever conducted." If it was not quite that, it was certainly one of history's most spectacular scientific experiments. Its name: Project Argus. The glowing accounts of the scientific results...
...radio silence all the way.-Meanwhile, a five-ship task force-the carrier Tarawa, the destroyer Warrington, the destroyer escorts Hammerberg and Courtney and the oiler Neosho-slipped inconspicuously out of Newport, R.I. and steamed southward. From Norfolk, Va. steamed the destroyer Bearss and the oiler Salamonie. Together, the eight ships made up Task Force 88, under the overall command of the Navy's Rear Admiral Lloyd Montague Mustin, 47 (Annapolis '32), aboard the Tarawa...
After 29 days of trial and testimony (sensation seekers paid up to $10 to more favored folk to get seats in the tiny courtroom), a jury of eight women and four men wound up disbelieving Elizabeth Duncan's protestation of innocence. The jury recommended death in San Quentin's gas chamber, left it for Judge Charles F. Blackstock to decide if she should be sent instead to a mental hospital...
Just what this encouragement amounted to became evident in a letter a Hungarian villager recently slipped out to a friend abroad: "Again today eight people have been taken to the party district committee. You cannot imagine what their fate will be. G. was cruelly beaten yesterday. His hair was torn out, and he was kicked and then sat upon. The poor man continued to say, 'I won't sign.' In A. [a neighboring village] things are the same. They beat up 29 people and forced them to join collectives. There is not a day that passes that...
...with the NAACP, the Society for Minority Rights is mainly concerned with the integration problem, though "itching to do some work on the McCarran-Walter Act, Puerto Ricans in New York City, orientals on the West Coast, and Mexicans in the Southwest." Its membership is around 25, of whom eight are active...