Word: helmets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dertinger is not likely to stir up much sympathy. A Prussian cadet, then a newspaperman, he became a jackbooted member of the jackbooted Stahlhelm (steel helmet) organization before Hitler came to power. After the war, though apparently not a Communist, he became their stooge, useful at keeping his fellow Roman Catholics in line. He was rewarded by a visit to Moscow for Stalin's birthday in 1950, a high Polish decoration only last month for having signed away to Poland all German territory east of the Oder-Neisse rivers, and a congratulatory telegram only a few weeks ago from...
...Seoul, he preached for five packed services in the Presbyterian church, then went up to the front just before Christmas to see the troops. The day before Christmas, in a tour of the central front, 5,000 men turned out to see him. Christmas afternoon he put aside his helmet and flak vest, flew back to Tokyo. Both Evangelist Graham and Cardinal Spellman left a great many calmer, happier Christians behind them in Korea. Graham also left a dog-tired Korean interpreter, the Rev. Han Kyung Chik, a Seoul pastor. Said Presbyterian Han, after two weeks of high-pressure translating...
...Aberdeen Proving Ground, Walter was absolutely the only private in the U.S. Army with hair 37 inches long. Sikhs serving in British forces wear their hair in turbans, but Private NeHalsingh wears his locks in a horsetail down his back-an arrangement which enables him to get a steel helmet over his head. Nobody laughs. Said Sergeant John J. Quigley last week of Warrior NeHalsingh: "A good soldier if I ever...
...hoard of art and knickknacks collected by the late William Randolph Hearst is going under the auctioneer's hammer. The latest group, some 300 pieces of old arms and armor, sold in Manhattan last week for a total of $40,810. The sale included a 16th century burgonet (helmet with cheek-pieces), the highest priced item, which went to a private collector for $3,200, and a 1560 wheel-lock Italian arquebus which the Metropolitan Museum of Art bought...
...avert such misadventures, the Air Force uses a "partial pressure suit" made like a skintight union suit of strong, greenish material, with an airtight helmet. When the cabin air pressure falls too low, an automatic valve shoots oxygen into the helmet at about ten Ibs. pressure per square inch. It also inflates rubber bladders along the wearer's limbs and body, making the suit even tighter. This enables the man to breathe and keeps gas bubbles from forming in his blood. He stays conscious longer and has a chance to bring his damaged plane down to inhabitable...