Word: harbor
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...combat a polio outbreak in Pearl Harbor, the Navy started inoculating some 22,000 married officers, sailors and marines and their families in the first mass Salk immunization of adults. So far, 19 people have been stricken, the majority of them with paralytic polio, and one pregnant service wife has died. Dr. Robert S. Poos, head of the Navy's Preventive Medicine Unit at Pearl Harbor, blames the outbreak on the mixing up of "new susceptibles and carriers from all over the world," wants to see the Salk vaccine made one of the compulsory shots given to servicemen...
Ever since Homer called it "the navel of the sea," Malta has been an island in search of an umbilical cord. 'Alone and vulnerable in the Mediterranean, 150 miles south of Italy, the rock (9 by 17 miles) has no economic value. But a fine deep harbor on its northeast shore has brought it the "protection" of a succession of great seafaring peoples, Phoenicians, Romans, Arabs, and for nearly 300 years, the crusading Knights of St. John of Jerusalem. Napoleon cut that tie. Then came Nelson, and the island, at the request of the Maltese themselves, became a crown...
...British proved to be the most casual of mothers. They set up a dockyard at Valletta harbor, and for more than a century, the Navy Estimates were the most exciting thing that happened in Malta, as well as the chief source of livelihood of its 320,000 inhabitants. But the island hardly interested the British until, in World War II, it became the center of bitter struggle with the Italians and the Germans for control of the Mediterranean. Then, as a British air and naval base, with the Maltese dug into its golden limestone, the island held out against...
From Pearl Harbor to an Obsession...
Grover could now return to long distance swimming with a freer style. He had begun after he joined the Navy in 1940 in time to be aboard the battleship U.S.S. West Virginia in Pearl Harbor when the Japanese struck...