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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During one amphibious operation off Nam Quan, Arnheiter-whose orders were to stay well at sea and cut off any Viet Cong "ex-filtration" by boat-commanded his officers to file false position reports and then took the Vance in close some 20 times to bombard the shore. On another occasion, Arnheiter brought the Vance within 250 yds. of the beach to blast a Buddhist pagoda that he suspected of being a Communist automatic-weapons position-and, according to the junior officers, avoided grounding only because Exec Hardy "relieved the skipper at the conn" and wheeled the ship to safety...
...lieutenant commander in Key West, Fla.; Generous, 27, is studying for a Ph.D. at Stanford in U.S. diplomacy; Belmonte, 26, is in the San Francisco stock market. There it might have ended, save for Arnheiter's barrage of letters to the Navy Department demanding a rehearing (the file is nearly three feet deep), and the powerful endorsement of his cause this month by Captain Richard G. Alexander, 45, a hot-shot line officer who will take command of the U.S.S. New Jersey when it comes out of mothballs next year to become the world's only operating battleship...
...devaluation will be dissipated by inflation. Though the giant Transport and General Workers' Union agreed to go along with a voluntary pay freeze, the striking dock workers refused to go back to work last week. There were also undisguised rumblings for bigger pay packets from the rank and file that may make it difficult for Wilson to hold the line on wage increases...
...capital to build the "Mooney Mite," a durable, single-engine one-seater. Trouble was, Mooney proved to be a better aeronautical engineer than businessman. Learning that the aircraft maker was hopelessly in debt, Rachal decided to take "a calculated risk." In 1954, on the night before Mooney planned to file for involuntary bankruptcy, Rachal and a brother-in-law, Norman Hoffman, came forth with $225,000 to rescue the company...
Future revision of the records will be facilitated by this new system, De Gennaro said, because the information is stored on magnetic tapes and the computer can be programmed to file new titles automatically...