Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...each student must take at least one specially designed course in the humanities and the social and natural sciences. Sample G.E. course: "Humanism in the West"-man's ideals, tensions, hopes and failures as seen through great books from the Iliad to the Waste Land. ¶ The U.S. Naval Academy, with one deadpan eye on West Point, reported that it had just fired one midshipman for cheating. (West Point's score so far this year: 90-odd.) ¶St. John's College, Annapolis (The Great Books), which last year decided to tonic its dwindling student body...
Exhumed Skeleton. The real reason for Chapman's action was that Columnist Drew Pearson had dug out, and showed Chapman, Naval Intelligence reports on skulduggery at the Harvey Machine Co. during World War II. Chapman could have found out the same facts if he had made any real investigation of the company before awarding it one of rearmament's biggest loans...
...According to the Intelligence report, the plant itself had made defective gauges on orders of Plant Manager Herbert Harvey, Leo's brother. On the original order for the off-size gauges, Herbert Harvey had penciled: "Make five more like this one." An Army Air Force auditor, according to Naval Intelligence, had reported that Harvey was also taking priority materials obtained for war work, turning them over to subsidiaries. The Navy had recommended criminal prosecution, but the Justice Department had finally decided that the evidence was insufficient...
...College's Naval Reserve department will shortly receive a letter from the Bureau of Naval Personnel which will clarify the position of the five men who applied for separation from the NROTC when faced with the alternative of spending extra time in the service...
...Naval students at the College yesterday were angry but resigned over their increased term of service. They had all signed up for periods less than the ones they will now have to last out and were bitter about what one of them called, "An obvious breach of contract...