Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...WAVE at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center wanted to know how TIME reports the news of Russia, one of the world's biggest areas, without a Moscow correspondent. Answer: the best way we can, with our Russian Desk reading the lines and between the lines of Russian periodicals, with diplomatic contacts in our Washington bureau and abroad, and with trickles of information which seep through the Iron Curtain...
...Lovett was born in Texas, the son of Robert Scott Lovett, general counsel and then president of Union Pacific. Young Bob left Yale (Phi Beta Kappa, Skull & Bones) during his third year to go overseas with the Yale Unit in the naval air force. In France he flew the lumbering British Handley Pages on some of the first night glide-bombing attacks, made a careful study of dive-bombing tactics which amazed his friends and delighted the Navy brass. The unit's historian summed up Lieut. Lovett in three words: "Observation, reflection, deduction-and there you were...
...recent morning, a naval officer in civilian dress stepped off a train at a fog-shrouded New England seaport and climbed into a waiting limousine. The car sped through the quiet streets and out into the misty countryside. A short while later, in a well-guarded brick building, the Navy man was speaking in harshly urgent tones to a handful of scientists and shipbuilders gathered around a conference table. The officer's name: Captain Hyman George Rickover. His job: to direct the building of the U.S. Navy's first atomic submarine...
...treaty which permits British troops to be stationed there, and to rule the million square miles of the Sudan jointly with Egypt, was signed by El Nahas Pasha himself, and hailed by him as a step toward Egyptian independence. It gave Britain the right to keep naval facilities at Alexandria and Port Said, and to station troops around the Suez Canal; it also repeated Britain's frequent promise to get out eventually. The treaty ended half a century of British rule, which began with Queen Victoria's forces moving in to protect British citizens and British investments...
After God and his neighbor, Monsignor Maurice S. Sheehy loves the U.S. Navy. His regular job is teaching (he heads the Department of Religious Education at Washington's Catholic University of America), but he served five years as a naval chaplain in World War II, holds a captaincy in the Naval Reserve, and confesses to being "the most biased man in the world about the U.S. Navy. . . To me 'gob' means God's Own Boys...