Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the 18-story tower building of the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson went home last week, remarkably recovered after a severe heart attack. Only the week before, the President of the U.S. had driven up to Walter Reed Army Medical Center, on Washington's outskirts, to have his eyes tested for new bifocals. (It turned out that he did not need any.) Almost any time a Washington VIP needs medical attention, one of the two big military hospitals is likely to be picked for his care. By Act of Congress, they...
...four years at the Academy, Landy stood No. 2 in his class, earned letters in football and tennis, and was captain of the debating team. He won a medal in naval architecture, received a $50 prize awarded by the Daughters of the American Revolution for being the best student in naval science. His graduation should have been triumphant. But last week came a blow. The Navy Department advised the Academy that it would not give Eugene Landy the ensign's reserve commission that usually goes with an Academy degree...
...returned. Snapped one of Denmark's own moral crusaders, Lutheran Pastor Boerge Hjerl-Hansen : "Before throwing stones, Graham ought to think twice. After all, he is a citizen of the country where the Kinsey Report was published." ∙∙∙ Discharged from suburban Washing ton's Bethesda Naval Hospital, where he was laid up after his heart attack (TIME, July n), Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson, once a fast-moving workhorse but now slowed to a walk, went with wife Lady Bird to his home in the capital, where he was greeted by neighbors...
...U.S.S. Pasadena found it intact and undamaged among the scrap in the battered naval base at Sasebo, 800 miles southwest of Tokyo, later donated it to Pasadena, Calif., where it was placed in the city hall. Tokyo's people heard that their bell was safe in a beautiful American city, but they were too proud to ask for it. Then, last June, Pasadena's Board of City Directors decided to return the bell...
...touch of Kidd and Blackbeard about him-at least in the eyes of landlubbers, whom he has shocked all his life. Uffa got into boats the hard way - as a 14-year-old Cowes shipbuilder's apprentice. After a World War I stint in the Royal Naval Air Service, he bagged a berth aboard Typhoon, a 45-ft. auxiliary ketch owned by two Manhattan yachting writers who had just crossed the Atlantic in 22 days. The return trip to the U.S. took three hungry, storm-ridden months. Undaunted, Uffa worked his way back to England again, started making...