Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Formalin for Posterity. About two weeks ago, Dr. Smith got a cablegram from Captain Eric Hunt, former British naval officer, amateur zoologist, and master of a small, coastal-trading vessel. A coelacanth had been caught, said Hunt, in the Mozambique Channel near Madagascar. Dr. Smith had better come quick, before it turned to mush like the other...
...Table's guests, as diversified as its donors, have run the gauntlet from English naval officers to Cambridge politicians. Ex-City Manager Atkinson, and Cambridge City Mayor Crane have both come more than once, as well as various distinguished Lowell House alumni who make their presence in Boston known to the House Secretary...
...mortar fire. In their second attack, the legionnaires got in among them with bayonets and grenades. The fight went on behind the cactus hedges and straw huts, with fanatical young Communists in brown homespun clothing shouting "La dai" (Come and get us). The legionnaires got them. On the river, naval units sank six barges full of Viet Minh soldiers and equipment. Four-star General Raoul Sa-lan, who has been consistently chipper, even on the eve of past setbacks, boasted: "The future of our military actions is now secured...
HAYMARKET'S theme derives from the row of shipping offices along Cockspur Street at its base. Explains Sir Hugh: "We decided the thing to do was to dress them to look like a fleet under review. We're making a bank of naval signals and spotlighting them . . ." WHITEHALL will have a military air, with Horse Guard helmets topping the lampposts, and breastplates below...
Human nature is not black and white, but black and grey." Died. Edward Eugene ("Goober") Cox, 72, longtime (since 1925) Georgia member of the House of Representatives and second in seniority on the House Rules Committee; of a heart ailment; in the Naval Hospital at Bethesda, Md. Shrewd, rabble-rousing Congressman Cox was convinced that the world is divided between white supremacists and potential Communists. He spent most of his career as art outspoken foe of the New Deal, the Fair Deal, labor leaders, foreigners and Negroes, and once blasted an anti-poll-tax bill as an "expression of venomous...