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...Unfortunate Speech." Jimmy Thach finished out the war as air operations officer of the loo-ship Fast Carrier Task Force, first under Admiral Marc Mitscher, then under Admiral John S. McCain. Five years later, he commanded the escort carrier Sicily off Korea, and in 1955 he went to the Pentagon as senior naval member of the Defense Department's Weapons Systems Evaluation Group. "Forget the Navy," Arleigh Burke told him then, "and think Defense...
...first test-firing and test-explosion of a nuclear-tipped ballistic missile at loo-mile-plus altitude to determine how a nuclear fireball will act in space's near-vacuum, an experiment preliminary to the building of an anti-missile missile. (The Russians test-exploded their first atomic missile, U.S. intelligence believes, at 60-mile altitude above Siberia last winter...
Charles Munch once commented: "It is a joy to make music with them." To Woody, a greater joy is the knowledge that, partly thanks to his group, no college glee club worthy of the name can any longer get by with Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral and Champagne Charlie...
...that thrashed home in 4:19.4 to lower the world's record by .6 sec. Meanwhile, sturdy, 14-year-old Chris von Saltza of Saratoga, Calif., swimming in a nearby San Jose pool, set three U.S. records in one astounding afternoon with times of 57.9 sec. for the loo-yd. freestyle, 4:54.8 for the 440-yd. freestyle and 5:37.5 for the 500-yd. freestyle...
Come on now, anybody can say, "Here we go loopy loo." "He's rather slow in group integration and reacts negatively to aggressive stimulus...