Word: lieuts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Most of the difficulty arises in the fine line that separates anesthesia from convulsions," says Lieut. Colonel John Moncrief, who monitored the project. The Mississippi machine, although still experimental, looks promising: it puts the patient to sleep, keeps him under as long as the current remains constant, permits him to awaken within 60 seconds after the juice is turned off. It uses 22-30 volts, 50 milliamperes, and a frequency that is brought up from 0 to 700 cycles to put the patient under. It causes some spasms, which drugs easily stop, but produces no convulsions, loss of memory...
...Carom Shot." Aboard the big flattop -christened in October by Mrs. Christian Herter and scheduled to go to sea in May -were some 3,500 civilian workers, fitting out the newest queen of the seas. On the hangar deck Navy Lieut. Vito Milano, supervisor of hull construction, was getting things ready for a pep rally to celebrate progress (85% complete) and ask for more. A fork lift truck started to pick up a big steel trash bin; apparently the bin nudged a heavy steel plate, which sheared off the valve of a 500-gallon tank of diesel fuel, used...
...defend herself. The ship has built-in fire-fighting equipment to flood its fuel compartments and cover the four-acre deck with foam in case of heavy attack.* But at dockside, the carrier was most vulnerable to fire damage, and entirely dependent on outside help. At the naval inquiry, Lieut. Milano admitted that 42 small fires had been snuffed out aboard Constellation before last week's holocaust...
GEORGE ZINNEMANN Lieut. Colonel, U.S.A.F. Dayton...
Luftwaffe. Of a scheduled 100,000 men, the air force now has about 64,000, nearly all volunteers. Under command of Lieut. General Josef Kammhuber, boss of all German night fighters in World War II, the Luftwaffe is already airborne and climbing fast. So far, five Luftwaffe wings are flying F-86s and F-845 for NATO. After keeping the French on tenterhooks for two years over a possible order for their Mirage III fighter, Strauss plumped last year for the U.S.-built F-IO4 as the Luftwaffe's main-line plane. The first trainer models have already been...