Word: lieuts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Second Bomb. Then, in December 1959, Lieut. Colonel Gardiner was sent to Jordan to serve with a British military advisory group, became unofficially Hussein's chief anti-bomb and security officer. When an assassin tried to blow up Hussein last year and succeeded only in killing his Premier, Gardiner was the first man to enter the smoking offices to search for a possible second bomb...
...deck to stand by for his arrival. Their crews had trained for a year for this moment; they were experts at hovering over a Mercury capsule, snagging it with a giant, steel shepherd's crook and getting its astronaut on board quickly. One of the skilled crook handlers, Lieut. George Cox, had fished the Astrochimp Ham out of the drink last...
Admiral's Cabin. Chances are, the six other astronauts* shared Shepard's driving urge to get into space. But by the time the top three men were chosen to prepare for the final countdown, despite persistent rumors that Marine Lieut. Colonel John Glenn was the front runner, Shepard's peers had already picked him as their personal choice. His utter devotion to the experiment earned him the flight. Said he with a grin: "Maybe I'm a link between Ham the Space Chimp and man." Whatever the reasons, it was Shepard who was chosen by National...
...short hoist from sea to helicopter was not without its danger. Earlier in the week, two Navy free balloonists, Commander Malcolm Ross and Lieut. Commander Victor Prather Jr., made a record flight (21.5 mi.) off the U.S.S. Antietam in the Gulf of Mexico, were picked up by a helicopter shortly after their gondola landed in the water. Commander Ross rode a horsecollar sling to safety. Commander Prather, a Navy medical officer on his third balloon ascent, fell from the sling as he was rising to ward the hovering chopper. Dragged under by the weight of his pressure suit, he died...
...real extravaganza. No fewer than 450 newsmen were on hand at Cape Canaveral, along with a tangle of cameras, cables and vans set up for television's first "live" space shot. Marveled the U.S. Marine Corps' onlooking Astronaut Lieut. Colonel John Glenn: "They've got everything here but a camel and an elephant." The occasion: the launching, as an immediate prelude to the U.S.'s first actual man-in-space effort, of a "canned man" - in reality, a 40-lb. apparatus billed as being electronically able to "breathe, sweat and speak...