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Captain Michael L. McHugh, professor of Naval science at MIT, administered the oath of office to 16 students who were appointed either second lieutenant in the Army, Air Force or Marine Corps or ensign in the Navy...
Nevada Republican Representative John Ensign calls the proposed panel "a thinly veiled disguise for future regulation of the gaming industry." That has been the casinos' worst fear ever since the Clinton Administration last year floated a 4% federal gaming tax--only to drop it after 31 Governors protested. In the past three years gambling has become one of the top five industries donating to political campaigns. That money no doubt ensures some entree now that the casinos' furious lobbying campaign against the federal panel--led by former G.O.P. chairman Frank Fahrenkopf--is turned on the U.S. Senate...
...says, "'The lines that you've written to be spoken by somebody named Spock can be easily distributed to any of the other characters on the screen."' Which is what happened: Captain Kirk appears with two lesser members of the old crew: chief engineer "Scotty" (James Doohan) and Ensign Chekov (Walter Koenig). Several members of the Next Generation cast, meanwhile, were less than thrilled with their relatively small amount of screen time. Says LeVar Burton, who plays Geordi: "Hopefully, if we do another one of these, we will have an opportunity to spread the wealth more...
Commissioned as an ensign in May 1943, Rubinwas assigned to a Landing Craft Tank (LCT), whichcarried six Sherman medium tanks in a convoy boundfor Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands...
Friends expected Navy Lieut. (J.G.) Alton Lee Grizzard, 24, to be an admiral one day. Last week he was shot four times: once in each leg, once in the abdomen and, finally, once in the head. Classmates worshipped Ensign Kerryn O'Neill, 21, an honors student and a track star at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. She was found not far from Grizzard, curled in a fetal position. She had been shot at close range in the back of the head. Like Grizzard and O'Neill, Ensign George P. Smith, 24, was a midshipman at Annapolis...