Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Government fought a long, grueling battle to save the nation while the nation slept. The most important of these was James Vincent Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy, and in 1947, the Secretary of Defense. Not until Forrestal jumped to his death from the 16th floor of the Bethesda Naval Hospital, in May 1949, did the world catch a hint of how exhausting the battle had been...
They did. Loyal warships bombarded the rebellious Punta del Indio naval air-base into quick surrender. At Campo de Mayo, General Benjamin Menéndez, 67, the retired army officer of right-wing, ultra-nationalist views who led the revolt, ran into opposition from loyal troops. Desperate, he finally lined up two squadrons of cavalry (all on white horses) and two tanks and three armored cars (he had counted on 30 Sherman tanks), and started for Buenos Aires. When the column stopped outside the Colegio Militar, loyal troops fired. The rebels leaped from their vehicles and ran. Loyal forces then...
...Social Register for Washington included some new names. Among those who made the grade for the first time: Price Boss Mike Di Salle, Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral William Fechteler, General Walter Bedell Smith...
...currently heads Harvard's vast scholarship program has one big headache--inflation. Francis Skiddy von Stade, Jr. '38, Chairman of the Committee on Scholarships, has been faced with this problem since he returned from naval service in 1946. In the last ten years, the "cost of college living" has increased 50%, from $1,000 a year to $1,700 per student. During the same period, scholarship stipends have only been raised...
Died. Master Gunnery Sergeant Lou (Leland) Diamond, 61, No. 1 mortar man of the Marine Corps and long its greatest living legend; of a lung ailment; in Great Lakes Naval Hospital, ILL. A roaring, weatherbeaten old China hand, he spent his off hours downing beer by the case, persistently refused a commission ("No one can make a gentleman out of me!"), created new legends wherever he served. On Tulagi, in World War II, they told how he smashed 14 Japanese buildings in a row with his 81-mm. mortar, then popped a shell down the chimney of the 15th. Reverent...