Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sandwiched between this phrenetic activity are some interesting shots of naval boot training, of a submarine crossing the Pacific and of Corinne Calvert. These may be a relief after concentrated doses of Lewis' nasal voice, but they kill off whatever slight continuity there might have been otherwise...
...news of Bourguiba's arrest made matters worse. Some 55,000 members of Tunisia's militantly anti-Communist trade union went out on strike, followed by many workers of the Communists' own union. At Mateur, railhead for the French naval base city of Bizerte, a crowd of 2,000 angry demonstrators surged out of the yellow-walled native district to storm police headquarters. For 45 minutes, the French held firm, refusing to fire as the mob swarmed over their tanks, smashing ports and prying open the turrets. "I'm going to fire," a young tank captain...
High Marks. Howe was born in Waltham, Mass, to a family whose ancestors had been Americans for more than 200 years. U.S. Naval Hero Stephen Decatur was a collateral relative; Julia Ward Howe, who wrote The Battle Hymn of the Republic, was a distant cousin. Howe's father was a carpenter who built small houses, one at a time. Howe went to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, got high marks, and stayed on for a year as an instructor in engineering...
...team, led by Wilbert K. Carter, teaching fellow in Anthropology, was sent by the Peabody Museum and sponsored by the Office of Naval Research. The group spent two months at Point Barrow the northernmost tip of Alaska on the Arctic Ocean; excavations can be made only during the summer months in this region, since the ground is too hard for careful digging at any other time...
Back in the Blockhouse the Harvard freshmen celebrated by breezing by a Quonset Point Naval Air Station squad...