Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After shooting down two Chinese Communist fighter planes, the U.S. naval force in the South China Sea was ordered to give up its search for survivors of the British airliner destroyed by the Reds. In Britain and France the downing of the Red planes brought reactions unfavorable to the U.S., but in Asia it went a small way to retrieve the loss of face that the U.S. suffered from the Geneva agreement on Indo-China...
...Korean war, to defeat and overthrow Chinese Communism. Twenty divisions of R.O.K. troops, he reminded the Congress, are ready in Korea; 20 more could be mustered, with military aid from the U.S., and another 630,000 troops, according to Rhee, are available in Formosa. From the U.S., only naval and air units, said Syngman Rhee, would be needed...
...pranks of midshipmen. Replacing a billy goat is not too difficult, even at Annapolis. But time is beginning to catch up with Spike, the bald and bandy-legged little boxing coach who taught generations of officers and gentlemen to box. He has turned 65, and the rules of the Naval Academy have forced him to retire...
Home from the wars, Spike was hired by the Naval Academy to run its puny and unpopular boxing program. The Academy was never the same again. Spike organized a boxing team that was undefeated for eleven years. He did not rest until boxing was made an important part of the regular physical training program and one of the biggest crowd attractions at Annapolis. Once, to cut the cheering section to manageable size, the Academy made formal dress the uniform for attending fights. MacDonough Hall gymnasium was still filled to capacity...
Over the years, in the minds of hundreds of naval officers, the Baltimore brawler with the boxer's rolling shuffle came to epitomize the ideals of the Naval Academy. But though Spike belonged to the Navy, he also found time to coach four U.S. Olympic teams. After Webb training, Olympians Frankie Genaro and Fidel La Barba went on to take turns holding the world flyweight championship. At Annapolis, meanwhile, Spike turned out such salty scrappers as Rear Admiral William V. ("Mickey") O'Regan and Submariner Captain Wreford ("Moon") Chapple...