Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four or six years. 10 to 12 weeks training at Newport, R. I., Great Lake Naval Training Station, Illinois or San Diego, California. No promises on ultimate assignment. Those who score in the 78th percentile on an Armed Forces Qualification Test may qualify for Electronics training or Aviation training. There is a waiting period on Navy enlistments during which time there is no draft deferment...
When Teacher Rockwell, a radioman first class in the Naval Reserve, received orders to report for active duty, his superintendent tried to get him deferred till June. The Navy said no. Thereupon, crossing their fingers and wishing hard, Teacher Rockwell's pupils wrote to the Navy themselves...
Last week they got an answer. "I was surprised and pleased to receive your letter," wrote Rear Admiral J. Cary Jones, Commandant of the Ninth Naval District. "I was surprised because when I was a boy, absence of a schoolteacher was a welcome event, and I was pleased to see that today's young people . . . regret the loss of a good teacher." The admiral was so pleased that he was granting Teacher Rockwell a deferment till June...
...proportionate basisabout one for every 3½ European divisions. (If the Administration did not seek congressional approval in a few days, said Douglas, he would bring the issue to a showdown vote himself.) ¶ Press for U.N. condemnation of China as an aggressor. ¶ Begin a naval blockade of the Chinese coast. ¶ "Make no deal in Korea in order to get out . . . If we leave, let it be an honorable withdrawal under gunfire because of overwhelming odds." ¶ "Try to promote democracy, land reform and an increase in production and living standards in all non-Communist countries...
...garbled version." But next day, Colonel Echols himself announced still further restrictions on news. Henceforth, he declared, MacArthur's own headquarters would issue no further information concerning land, sea or air operations in Korea. All this would come from lower-command headquarters, i.e., the Eighth Army and naval and air force commands. The Chicago Daily News's Correspondent Keyes Beech jumped on this as evidence that Washington was gagging MacArthur and trimming his power. Wrote Beech, "MacArthur's headquarters is reduced to releases of 'general' nature, human interest stories and awards and decorations . . . That MacArthur...