Word: lieuts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...staff committee, composed of officers from the Big Five. But as Russian vetoes followed one another in the Council like wolves across the steppe, it became quickly plain that this method of peace-keeping would not work. In fact, the military staff committee still exists, but its U.S. representative, Lieut. Colonel Victor de Guinzbourg, is noted mostly for his compilation of a volume entitled Wit and Wisdom of the U.N. (Sample wisdom from Japan: "A wise man is impartial, not neutral; a fool is neutral, but not impartial"; from East Africa: "Nine is very near...
...Died. Lieut. General Sir Frederick A. M. Browning, 68, dashing British war hero and husband of Novelist Daphne du Maurier, who in World War II organized the crack Red Devils paratroop division, then led them in their valiant but disastrous attempt to seize and hold the Arnhem bridgehead in 1944, after the war served as the royal household's controller and treasurer until his retirement in 1959; of a heart attack; in Cornwall, England...
With that brief solo excursion into hostile emptiness last week, Lieut. Colonel Leonov took man's first tentative step down the long and dangerous track that he must travel before he truly conquers space. Circling the earth in a sealed and well-provisioned capsule has been demonstrated to be well within human capabilities, but the moon will never be explored, to say nothing of Mars and the other planets, unless fragile men learn to function in the outside vacuum where no earthborn organisms are naturally equipped to live...
However, in one of their first joint patrols with Vietnamese rangers, the marines were slightly unnerved. "The Vietnamese seemed to know their business all right," said Lieut. Donald H. Hering, "but we were a little shook up when they started lighting cigarettes and listening to jazz on their transistors while we were patrolling...
There's nothing like a few hours lying on a Florida pad to relax the old muscles. But this pad was at Cape Kennedy, and Astronauts Gus Grissom, 38, and Lieut. Commander John W. Young, 34, could be pardoned for feeling a mite tense. They were on their backs, 100 ft. up, in a sealed Gemini capsule atop a fully fueled Titan II rocket while launching personnel put the spacecraft through a mock countdown. And there they lay for 2 hr. 54 min., while the booster's second stage leaked fuel, a computer went haywire, and enough other...