Word: lieuts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This is a new ocean," said President Kennedy, ''and I believe that the U.S. must sail on it." The President, still tingling from a day of thrill and suspense shared by the nation and the world, was paying tribute to Lieut. Colonel John Herschel Glenn Jr., 40, the freshly commissioned admiral of that new ocean. As the focus of a mighty team effort involving a host of fiercely dedicated men, vast technological skills and millions of dollars of the national wealth. John Glenn accomplished on his flight through the heavens?which he laconically called a "successful outing"?far more...
...everyone was asking about was U.S. Marine Corps Lieut. Colonel John H. Glenn Jr., 40, who in the past nine weeks had undergone, without twitch or grimace, an agonizing series of frustrations in his effort to become the first American to orbit the earth; this week he was scheduled to try again...
Count or Kill? Harkins will not only have to help South Viet Nam's President Diem reform his regime; he will have to do some reforming of U.S. operations as well. The first U.S. military mission in South Viet Nam dates from 1954, when Lieut. General John ("Iron Mike") O'Daniel helped organize the Vietnamese army for pro-Western President Ngo Dinh Diem. Next came Lieut. General Samuel ("Hangin' Sam") Williams, a leathery, irascible veteran who was convinced that when war came it would be a Korean-style invasion from the north with the Communists pouring tank...
Once again the U.S. braced to hurl Marine Lieut. Colonel John Glenn into orbit about the earth-and once again the flight was canceled...
...LIEUT. COLONEL R. J. MANFRINI San Luis Obispo, Calif...