Word: lieuts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lieut. General Lewis B. Hershey, granddaddy of the nation's selective service system (he helped lay the groundwork in 1936, became director in 1941), was aware of-and worried about-the problem. Early this year he put staff members to work, and they recommended that married men would be an easily identifiable group to excuse from service without seriously hurting U.S. military manpower needs...
Last week, with both countries having brought complaints to an emergency session of the Security Council (its 202nd session on a Palestine-related issue), the U.N.'s truce chief on the scene, Norwegian Lieut. General Odd Bull, left little doubt that Syria had been the aggressor. Backed up by photographs, spent bullets and diagrams, Bull's report told of finding "two dead bodies riddled with holes; a tractor with numerous bullet holes; a magazine from an automatic weapon; a lever handle from a grenade; ... a pool of blood where one man allegedly had been shot, leaving part...
...Bryan Price: the International 5-0-5 Class world sailing championship; in a stiff breeze off Larchmont, N.Y. Australian Price handled his 16-ft. centerboard Sundowner as though it was wearing a motor, blew U.S. Air Force Lieut. Henry Schefter into second place, and whipped 52 other contestants from eight countries...
...Died. Lieut. Colonel James Cushing, 53, U.S. Army guerrilla leader who stayed behind on the Philippine island of Cebu after the Japanese occupation and in 1944 captured a Japanese admiral carrying plans for defense strategy, thus hastening the liberation of the islands; of a heart attack; in Manila. With the plans safely in Australia, Cushing disregarded orders by releasing the admiral to put a stop to a massacre of Cebu islanders by Japanese troops, and lost his rank, later restored...
First came trial rockets-rumors that Air Force Lieut. Colonel John ("Shorty") Powers, 40, voice of the astronauts, was no longer A-OK with his NASA bosses. For months Shorty bantily crowed at the notion. Two weeks ago, the crow got lower. "I am sure my role is going to change," he admitted after a meeting with NASA Administrator James Webb. Last week it was official; Shorty was the cargo on a one-man, one-way man shoot out of Canaveral. Next on the pad: Paul Haney, 35, a NASA publicity man since shortly after the agency's founding...