Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...keeping open sea lanes of transportation and communication, applying air power from offshore carriers. In keeping with its arguments, the Navy is pushing, despite the budget hold-down, for a $375 million dreamboat: a second atomic-powered carrier to join the Enterprise, now abuilding. So taken is Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh ("31-Knot") Burke with the atomic carrier's virtues-speed, range and freedom from refueling problems, except for aircraft fuel-that, to get another one, he is even willing to see a slowdown in procurement of atomic-missile subs...
After two weeks of deep-blue silence and dress-white evasion had failed to keep the wretched matter quiet, the U.S. Naval Academy brass harrumphed and admitted that the story in the Baltimore News-Post was "substantially correct." Gist: a bouncy, 17-year-old high school girl named Susan Johnson had arrayed herself in a midshipman's uniform, invaded the academy, stood formation, attended mess with 3,600 midshipmen, had gaily run down dormitory corridors popping into rooms (so another account ran) and made a clean getaway. First upshot: two midshipmen charged with helping her face dire punishment...
Leyte, by Samuel Eliot Morison. One of history's decisive naval engagements masterfully recreated...
...Office of Naval Research and the National Science Foundation are the principal sponsors of this sort of space research. For weeks two Navy scientists have been standing by in South Dakota, waiting for a break in the weather to soar aloft in a "Strato-lab" balloon carrying a 16-in. Schmidt telescope. Target of the flight will be Mars, now unusually close to the earth. When Mars is photographed by surface telescopes, the fine detail on its surface is blurred by turbulence in the atmosphere. There should be little or no turbulence above the 16-mile (80,000-ft.) level...
Leyte, by Samuel Eliot Morison. One of history's decisive naval engagements masterfully recreated...