Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Visited Democratic Senate Leader Lyndon Johnson at the Bethesda (Md.) naval hospital, where Johnson is still confined after his recent heart attack (TIME, July...
...Washington, the Defense Department announced that, having completed two correspondence courses in 1953 and successfully made his point quota, Vice President Richard M. Nixon had been promoted to the rank of commander in the Naval Reserve...
...high wire fences of Camp Elliott, Calif, take in 40 square miles of desert scrublands northeast of San Diego, and keep in 885 grey-uniformed men who have been sentenced for a set term in the U.S. Naval Retraining Command-the Navy's equivalent of a reformatory. Be havior problems one and all, the men have gone AWOL, committed thefts or sexual offenses, assaulted superiors or somehow violated one of the hundreds of "Rocks and Shoals" (Navy Regulations). In their state of military purgatory they run through a routine of work details, formations, exercise and orientation lectures. When their...
...this process, probably the most enlightened punishment in the long history of naval discipline, is wasteful: the Navy would like to make it all unnecessary by learning how to spot in advance the recruit who will go over the hill or sock the skipper. Also, since some bad apples will always get through, it would like to be able to look at each and decide whether the canker of bad conduct can be cut out so that the offender can safely be returned to duty...
...seeking space for maneuvers and testing, as well as the desert's clear, dry weather and year-round sunshine, were the first to move out in expansive style. They sank hundreds of wells, established mushrooming service installations: Edwards and George Air Force Bases in the Mojave, the U.S. Naval Ordnance Test Station near Inyokern, the Army's Camp Irwin at Barstow, Marine Corps depots and bases at Mojave, Barstow and Twenty-nine Palms, and other big bases at Las Vegas and in the Arizona Desert around Tucson and Phoenix. At Frenchman Flat, 70 miles north of Las Vegas...