Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high wire fences of Camp Elliott, Calif, take in 40 square miles of desert scrublands northeast of San Diego, and keep in 885 grey-uniformed men who have been sentenced for a set term in the U.S. Naval Retraining Command-the Navy's equivalent of a reformatory. Be havior problems one and all, the men have gone AWOL, committed thefts or sexual offenses, assaulted superiors or somehow violated one of the hundreds of "Rocks and Shoals" (Navy Regulations). In their state of military purgatory they run through a routine of work details, formations, exercise and orientation lectures. When their...
...World. To this end, the Navy has established a squad of civilian psychologists at Camp Elliott, to work with selected inmates to find out what makes the problem sailor or marine break step. Head of the squad is James Douglas Grant, 37, a burly, six-foot Stanford graduate, with an infectious grin and a saddle-tanned bald head, who has three immediate aides but can draw on the help of Camp Elliott's 400-man staff if he needs it. Grant's first problem was to find a yardstick for his research. "A man's intelligence quotient...
...Frank F. Elliott, 62, advanced from senior vice president to president and chief executive officer of Crane Co.. one of the top U.S. makers of bathroom fixtures, to succeed John L. Holloway, who resigned because of poor health. Elliott joined Crane 33 years ago in Los Angeles, moved up to branch manager, to Western district manager, to vice president for all sales. President Elliott's first objective: halt Crane's three-year decline in sales and profits (1954 net: $5,800,000 v. $8,700,000 in 1953, $16,200,000 in 1951). To do this...
...Robert Elliott Jones, onetime Kansas City-style trumpeter who has also learned to blow up some dust on the new side of the street...
...have attained the best distribution of scholastic rank and school background yet," Elliott Perkins '23, Secretary of the Housemaster's Council and Master of Lowell House, said last night...