Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist China with bases. Sixty miles northwest of Manila, overlooking the calm blue wa ters of Bataan's Subic Bay, the U.S. flag was raised over land that only five years ago was an impenetrable mixture of mountain, swamp and jungle, swarming with pythons. The new Cubi Point Naval Air Station is the Navy's largest air station in Asia, and a major addition to SEATO's chain of defense...
...facts. A shark is not shy. It does not have to turn on its back to attack. It does not attempt to swallow a man whole, but nips out steak-sized chunks. For some reason, perhaps the sharpness of the teeth, a victim scarcely feels the bite. A naval officer who spent twelve hours in the waters off Guadalcanal remembered feeling "a scratching, tickling sensation" in his left foot. "Slightly startled, I held it up. It was gushing blood. I peered into the water. Not ten feet away was the glistening, brown back of a great fish." The shark returned...
...friend in the Central Intelligence Agency. On a routine trip to Naples he checked with the Navy physicians. Suddenly the gravity of the situation hit home. On their own, the Navy doctors had already sent their findings and laboratory specimens to the topflight laboratories of the U.S. Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Md. On the Navy's records the patient was fictitiously identified as Seaman Jones. Back to Italy went the report: Seaman Jones is a victim of arsenic poisoning. The news was relayed to Ambassador Luce while, she was at home during the 1955 New Year's holidays...
...busy to do much soaring in between the international meets, Paul MacCready, 30, divides his time between meteorological research and running his own outfit, Meteorology, Inc., which specializes in cloud-seeding studies. He began soaring after training as a naval aviator during World War II, has kept it up to help work out his meteorological theories. "Rain, hail, lightning," says Paul, "all of them are byproducts of upcurrents. Soaring is a sport that teaches a scientist something...
...home, where he had once reached a dramatic 30,000 ft. (the record: 43,000 ft). Patiently he tacked back and forth, working his way upward, riding air currents as buoyantly as a beach boy on a surfboard. Once over the crest, he slid easily downward to the French naval airfield at Hyères, just eleven miles east of Toulon. No other glider got close...