Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dave Hawkins set a pool record of 24.2 seconds in the 50 yard freestyle and the swimmers went on to beat a Quonset Naval Air Station team, 43 to 32, at Quonset. John Holcenberg who won the 100 yard breaststroke and Ed Benton who won the 100 yard backstroke were also members of the winning 150 yard medley relay team, along with Doug Mansfield...
...other extreme, the swimming team reaches the neo-graduate school level when it takes on the Quonset Naval air Station at Quonset...
...Chiang's present capabilities. But the U.S., for its part, is committed to nothing. Obviously Eisenhower will not stand by and see the Communists launch an invasion against Formosa. The U.S. could make Chiang's raids more effective by providing the raiders with more arms, and with naval and air cover. No Administration official contemplates U.S. armies helping Chiang on the Chinese mainland, and Chiang has not asked for such help...
...brief meeting with Marine Lieut. Allen Macy Dulles, son of the new head of Central Intelligence Agency and nephew of the Secretary of State. The major was on his way back to Korea to finish his tour of duty; the lieutenant, a stretcher patient bound for Bethesda Naval Hospital and further treatment for battle wounds...
...American Legion meeting in Washington, Admiral William Fechteler, Chief of Naval Operations, commented on some of his recent reading. Herman Wouk's The Caine Mutiny. Said the Old Sea Dog: "It's a hell of a good yarn, but I often wonder how one Naval Reserve officer could have collected in two years in one little ship all the screwballs I have known in my 30 years in the Navy...