Word: mediterraneans
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...knees-Goldwater bluffed his way past the physical exam*. Assigned to Phoenix's Luke Field in a nonflying post, he bummed rides in his spare time, demanded a check-out flight -and got his wings. Later he ferried P-47s across the North Atlantic, saw action in the Mediterranean and C.B.I, theaters, emerged from the war a lieutenant colonel. Now a Reserve brigadier general, Goldwater has flown in some 75 different types of aircraft, including 16 jets...
...jewels for the sultans' baubles usually came from abroad. Selim's only son, Suleiman the Magnificent, was probably responsible for a good part of the collection. Under him, the empire stretched to the Adriatic Sea and gobbled up Rhodes. Suleiman's admirals could pillage the Mediterranean, and it was thought proper for a grateful admiral to shower his sultan with gifts...
While John flew P-39s in the Mediterranean and P-40s in South China, the Marines sent Clint Jr. through Duke University, where he graduated top man in his engineering class. The war over, John went back to Yale for some serious studying, then headed out to Santa Fe where Clint Sr. had lined him up a $175-3-month job in a bank. Meanwhile Clint Jr. was getting a master's in math at M.I.T. In 1950 they joined forces in Dallas...
...Vincent Malraux, 17, Lycée student in Paris, sons of French novelist, art expert and Cultural Affairs Minister Andre Malraux and his late second wife, Novelist Josette Clotis; when a car driven by the older brother struck a tree on their way back to Paris after a Mediterranean holiday; near Dijon...
Died. Admiral Sir Dudley Burton Napier North, 79, much-decorated naval veteran who fought vainly for 17 years to clear his name after he was relieved by Winston Churchill as Britain's top admiral in the Mediterranean for allowing six French ships loyal to the Vichy government to slip through the Straits of Gibraltar and sail to Dakar; of pneumonia; in Beaminster, Dorset, England...