Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...White House for some 60 guests, including a dozen or so oilmen and bankers-and not including newsmen. There followed a heavy, split-second schedule for Saud; every moment away from business he spent in side trips, e.g., a wreath for the Unknown Soldier, a tour of the U.S. Naval Academy, a basketball game...
...other children ("The mischief done by bad boys and the things they may hear and learn from them cannot be overrated"), the future George V was also kept in virtual isolation. It was not until they were 13 that Edward VIII and George VI were sent to the Royal Naval College at Osborne. There Edward Windsor got his first taste of what a boy's world is like when some senior-termers poured red ink over his head, once banged a window down on his neck in "a crude reminder of the sad fate of Charles...
...this admiring book Author Charles Beatty, nephew of Admiral Earl Beatty, Britain's World War I naval hero, writes a passionate defense of all the acts of Ferdinand de Lesseps' life. The biographer's adulation prevents the reader from discovering the man beneath the trappings of the hero. But of De Lesseps' effect on his time and on history, there is no doubt. The world still struggles clumsily with the problems he posed, and still has need of men like De Lesseps, who always "expected to meet friends rather than enemies, yet was always sword...
Already the new Macmillan government has reduced the annual army re serve call-up by 120,000, disbanded R.A.F. and naval air reserve squadrons of "weekend flyers," and canceled orders for 100 new Hawker Hunter jet fighters (for the nation that pioneered the jet, postwar plane development has been a continuing disappointment: the Hunter is becoming obsolete just as its bugs are being eliminated, and one of Britain's top aircraft designers declared recently that the eight-jet Boeing B-52 is "five years ahead of any bomber we have...
Died. Vice Admiral (ret.) Wilson Brown, 74, U.S.N., naval aide to Presidents Coolidge, Hoover, Roosevelt and Truman, onetime superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy (1938-41), who led a task force in the Battle of the Coral Sea in 1942, won a Distinguished Service Medal; in Groton, Conn...