Word: ensigns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could have won them all. "Grouped together," he says, "they stand for valor." Carefully examined, they also say something else. Since his cover figure represents a military Establishment under attack, Navy Man Wheeler decided to slip in a nautical signal for trouble. On shipboard, that would be the ensign flying upside down; on the cover, it is two ribbons turned over...
...Washington later reduced the term to two years). Equally revealing of the military mentality was an episode that occurred recently at the naval base in Long Beach, Calif. Fed up with the hippies, peaceniks and other irritating agents, base officials barred any cars bearing the stylized love daisy, the ensign popular with antiwarriors, from the installation. One day an officer who was driving a daisy-festooned car was detained at the gate for 15 minutes. He turned out to be the new base commander, en route to his own welcome-aboard ceremonies in his son's auto. Daisies have since...
...played Ensign O'Toole...
After graduation and admission to a state Bar, students receive appointments as Ensign in the Judge Advocate General's Corp of the Reserve. A six-year commitment is required, with four years of active duty...
...assume that TIME either knows something nobody else knows, or else has been given advance word on the imminent demotion of Pueblo Skipper Bucher back to ensign? Otherwise, how do you explain the conspicuous absence of "scrambled eggs" on Commander Bucher's hat on the cover...