Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Commander D. J. Giorgio and Lieut. J. G. Morrow, anesthesiologists at Bethesda Naval Medical Center, have worked out a stratagem for soothing young surgical patients. Their device: a plastic space-chief helmet with a tube to admit oxygen and cyclopropane gas. After the space chief fogs off, he gets ether like ordinary mortals...
Stevens, former naval attaché in Moscow and author of the bestselling Russian Assignment (TIME, Nov. 16). After three years in Air Corps Intelligence in Ice land, young Stevens came out a captain...
Navy's top A-bomb experts; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in New York City. A crack gunnery officer, he became chief of the Bureau of Ordnance during World War II, later led a naval bombardment group in the Pacific. In 1946, commanding Joint Task Force One (230 ships; 41,000 men; 1,000 scientists and technicians), Admiral Blandy smoothly directed the first postwar A-bomb tests at Bikini. Retiring as head of the Atlantic Fleet in 1950, he was recalled to active duty last October, when death came was busy evaluating the Navy's Reserve program...
...NAVY has finally decided to get out of the railroad business after twelve years, will shut down its freight line (four locomotives, 48 miles of track) from Brandywine, Md. to the Patuxent Naval Air Training Center. Reason: the dilapidated road would cost $1,000,000 to repair, another $100,000 a year to run "safely and efficiently...
Clark, now graduate president of the Varsity Club, is a member of the Overseer's Committees for the College and the Departments of Military, Naval, and Air Science. He is a Boston investment broker, a partner in the firm of H. C. Wainwright...