Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...built its own basement shelter, added OCDM, atom deaths would be cut by 12 million and injuries by another 12 million. (OCDM is now distributing 50 million books showing how to construct a do-it-yourself shelter for $175.) Furthermore, said Military Evaluations Chief Walter E. Strope of the Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory, the Government could save a high percentage of U.S. citizens from blast and fallout by spending $5 billion to $20 billion on federal shelters...
...Puerto Plata front, the government countered rebel claims of a successful landing with a communiqué full of gore. The "liberators" who survived an air and naval bombardment, it said, "waded ashore apparently hoping still to march on Ciudad Trujillo with the aid of peasants. It did not work that way. Machete-swinging farmers beat government troops to the beach. The invasion ended in a murderous flailing of razor-sharp machetes on the reddened sands. Army patrols found only dismembered bodies...
...next ten years Iselin sailed with the Atlantis, crisscrossing the Atlantic and doing an oceanographer's chores-trailing thermometers at varying depths, testing water for density and salinity. In 1940 he became director of Woods Hole, saw U.S. oceanography transformed into a Naval auxiliary. For some reason, neither the German nor the Japanese navies ever got in touch with their oceanographers, who were excellent. "This made a hell of a difference in World War II," says Iselin...
Poop Deck. In Toronto, Clifford Nesbitt staggered while undergoing an intoxication test for drunken driving, won an acquittal when he explained: "I'm an ex-sailor. That's my swagger left over from naval days...
Watching from the river bank as Wisconsin breezed home was the Naval Academy's Rusty Callow, 68, dean of U.S. rowing coaches, whose Navy crews dominated the I.R.A. in 1952, 1953 and 1954. Developer of countless great oarsmen and rowing coaches in a 37-year career, Callow was forced to step down from active coaching a month ago because of failing health and eyesight. But at the finish of the race last week, Rusty Callow could feel satisfied. His Navy crew, only a mediocre outfit this season but revamped for the I.R.A., made a gallant closing spurt, finished...