Word: naval
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...recent issue of All Hands, the Bureau of Naval Personnel Information Bulletin, appears the following...
...system itself was far more extreme than that in force in most colleges. The Naval Academy also stresses a midshipman's honor; but it always has proctors present at tests, and it does not give the same test to two groups of students-the most glaring temptation to cheating in the West Point system. Furthermore, the Navy does not require one student to report violations of another student...
...Christian Temperance Union, having brewed a new campaign against sale of liquor to the armed forces, last week pulled the cork with a pop. In Boston, Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin, W.C.T.U. president, handed out excerpts from a letter written to an American prohibitionist last January by Mitsuo Fuchida, Japanese naval air captain who led the air attack on Pearl Harbor. Under the heading "No More Pearl Harbors and No More Drinking," Teetotaler Fuchida wrote: "Because of my subordinate position, I did not know at the time why the Japanese high command chose that day. After the war's termination...
...speed of sound. Five new types of swept-wing jet fighters flashed past, outracing the banshee wail of their engines. Column after column of MIG-15s paraded over the crowd, followed by 100 four-engine Russian copies of the U.S. B29, seaplanes, amphibians, a new twin-jet naval light bomber. Nine helicopters whirled up, rainbows of parachutists floated down from huge transports...
After a skittish mare kicked Oregon's Republican Maverick Wayne Morse smack in the mouth at the Orkney Springs, Va. horse show, Washington reporters called at the Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Md. to see how the Senator was feeling, got their answer in a written note: "I have learned to roll with political kicks and punches, but I haven't learned how to absorb the kick of a horse...