Word: lieuts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...starlets. Hassan was often in the company of pretty. 28-year-old French Actress Etchika Choureau, who, for three years, lived across the street from him in fashionable Souissi, a suburb of Rabat. But Etchika has returned to Paris. One of his close friends last year was U.S. Navy Lieut. Commander Leon Blair, a brash, talkative Texan and former public relations officer at the U.S. naval base at Kenitra. Blair shipped in pecan trees from Texas for Hassan's garden, prairie dogs for the royal zoo, ten-gallon hats for Hassan's princely head. When left-wing Premier...
...print, out of mind, thought U.S. Postmaster General J. Edward Day of his first and last novel: Bartholf Street, written during World War II when Navy Lieut. Day was on convoy duty and published in 1947. But last week, well aware of Day's new eminence, his old publisher announced a reprinting of Bartholf Street. This was ironic, since Day had been forced to contribute $800 to get the first edition published. In the 13 years since. Day's royalties totaled 40--paid in postage stamps. A sample Bartholf Street scene: ''Marie walked in and closed...
...space to a few hundred likely candidates, then a few score, then again to the seven well-publicized Mercury astronauts. Last week, with all the nonchalance of Casey Stengel reeling off a pre-game batting order, Project Mercury Director Robert Gilruth narrowed the choice to three. The trio: Marine Lieut. Colonel John Glenn Jr., 39; Air Force Captain Virgil Grissom, 34; Navy Commander Alan Shepard Jr., 37. After the initial manned flight is scheduled-perhaps in two months-one of the three will be chosen to ride a Redstone-borne capsule on a relatively short 16-minute trip: about...
Abandoned, by A. L. Todd. The Arctic Circle was outer space in the late 19th century. Lieut. Greely and his 24-man team got there; but only seven returned to tell their grisly tales...
...launch got wedged in the ice, two of the boats were abandoned, and the desperate men barely made it across the ice pack to Cape Sabine as winter and the polar night descended. In the minds of all were the fates of two previous expeditions-those of U.S. Lieut. Commander George De Long and Britain's Sir John Franklin, which ended with the loss of both leaders and more than...