Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rear Admiral Roy T. Cowdrey, who commands naval shipyards...
...where board was $6.40 a month and each student did 36 hours' work every month. At the University of Georgia, he was both a serious student and a cheerleader, but no campus politician. After he got his law degree in 1918, he did a short stint in the Naval Reserve, then returned to Winder and hung out his shingle...
...Last week, before a board of inquiry at Bayonne, N.J., Lieut. William A. Hoefer Jr., 27, an ex-merchant mariner and senior surviving officer of the Hobson, told what happened in the moments before the Wasp rammed and sank the destroyer in the worst peacetime disaster of modern U.S. naval history...
...Then one day he strode through the Pentagon's web to the closely guarded sector where the Joint Chiefs of Staff hold their regular meetings. In his quiet, earnest baritone he went over his case again & again for Chief of Staff Joe Collins of the Army, Chief of Naval Operations Bill Fechteler and for the JCS chairman, Infantryman Omar Bradley. The Air Force still wanted 163 wings, but it would retreat to 143 wings and hope for the best. Under the discipline of facts-facts that came hard to non-airmen-the Joint Chiefs decided unanimously that...
Only 16 out of the field of 96 golfers qualified for the individual match play. Sole Harvard qualifier was Bill Timpson, who fired an 80-79--159. Medalist was Jim Ragland of Princeton, with a 76-73--149, over the tough, narrow Naval Academy course...