Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...baseball team won its eighth game in nine starts yesterday when it beat Otis Naval Air Base 7 to 4. Dave Brigham was the winning pitcher for the Crimson...
...Russians themselves were less reticent but only slightly more informative. "A watchman on our ship saw the frogman come to the surface in Portsmouth harbor," said an assistant naval attachè at the Soviet embassy, but "we were in a British port and there was nothing we could do." It was nevertheless true that soon after anchoring, the Ordzhffuikidze had taken the precaution of putting a crew of its own frogmen over the side...
After the Tuesday afternoon Naval Commissioning Ceremany there will be a moonlight cruise for seniors and dates, as well as families and friends. Drinks will be available aboard the Sea Belle, and a motorcycle escort will lead the way there...
...heavies meet Penn and Navy, as well as the Naval Academy's 1952 Olympic champion "Admirals," on the Severn for the Adams Cup. At Princeton's Lake Carnegie, the 150-pound crews will race Yale and Princeton for the Goldthwait...
...heroic, traditional act of bailing out with a parachute is getting less and less popular as airplanes fly faster and higher. Pilots have landed alive (though in poor condition) after bailing out above the speed of sound (TIME, Nov. 21), but according to experts of the Office of Naval Research, no ejection-seat and parachute combination can save a pilot flying more than 1,900 m.p.h. at 70,000 ft. Less speed would be fatal at lower altitudes, because the thicker air would hit the pilot with a harder decelerating jolt...