Word: lieuts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sunday Rainstorm. While Yoshikawa did not know the date of "X-Day," he did know that it was rapidly approaching. Near the end of November, a Lieut. Commander Suguru Suzuki arrived in Honolulu disguised as a ship's steward. He called on Consul General Nagao Kita, and, "in the course of their conversation, slipped a tiny ball of crumpled rice paper into Kita's hand." The list contained 97 questions. The key question, promptly referred to Yoshikawa: "On what day of the week would the most ships be in Pearl Harbor on normal occasions?" Yoshikawa's reply...
...Burst in the Chest. At 7 o'clock, 200 nervous Colongolese troops arrived and deployed facing the embassy. TheTunisians, equally jittery, eyed them in the growing dusk. At 7:40, Lieut. Colonel Joseph N'Kokolo, second-ranking officer in the Congo army started across the street with the evident intention of conferring with the Tunisian commanding officer. This was the moment Police inspector N'Gampo chose to shout "Tirez: [Fire]!" A French-speaking Tunisian pulled the trigger of his submachine gun; the burst smashed into the chest of Colonel N'Kokolo, killing him instantly. Both sides...
...people. It celebrated Kennedy's election with free beer for all males who could prove they were the same age as the Senator. In Tokyo offices, "I'm 43, too" became the boast of junior executives on the rise. Suddenly in the limelight was onetime Imperial Navy Lieut. Commander Kohei Hanami, who broke into print rejoicing that when his destroyer sliced a U.S. PT boat in two in 1943, Lieut, (j.g.) Jack Kennedy had providentially survived...
...Force Materiel Chief Lieut. General Mark E. Bradley Jr. last week gave a blunt warning to Air Force contractors: "There's too much gold plating and fanciness. I intend to raise hell as long as I am here until I get some action." The action he wanted was to eliminate waste and overcharging in Air Force procurement. Bradley said that $100 million has already been trimmed out of the revived B70 program "by cutting out fancy items that were put in there to do the job just a little better. You can do the same job, perhaps a little...
...broaden the attack on costs a top-level committee of General Bradley, Air Force Controller Lieut. General William D. Eckert and Inspector General Lieut. General Joseph F. Carroll last week launched 70 specialists into the field to survey management practices of Air Force prime contractors. First to be studied is Martin Co., Titan missile prime contractor. Martin was picked because the Titan program is at the stage where catching mistakes might save money. The Atlas missile program is too old, the Minuteman too young...