Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...problems of getting the satellite up into space, Milton Rosen of the Naval Research Laboratory, and technical adviser of the satellite project, told about some of the novel features of the launching vehicle. Any one of them might be a cause of failure if not designed with long, loving care. Each component will have to be tested, both separately and in combination with others, before the first launching vehicle can head for space...
...United Front, comprised of such uneasy partners as a Buddhist party, a Trotskyite group and the supernationalist Ceylon Freedom Party. The coalition demanded the nationalization of all tea and rubber plantations still in British hands, and the ejection of British forces from the new Commonwealth nation of Ceylon. (The naval base at Trincomalee and the air base at Negombo are the last remaining British bases between the Middle East and Malaya...
...conceal their disappointment as they repacked ten small glass slides in a wooden box one day last week. The slides had been hurried over from France by diplomatic courier in the belief that they contained a long-sought medical curio-some tissue sections removed from the kidneys of U.S. Naval Hero John Paul Jones. Undaunted, the pathologists said they had not yet begun to fight, this week resumed the search...
Although Jones's remains were brought home in state (they now rest in the crypt of the Naval Academy Chapel at Annapolis), military medics later began to wonder what had happened to the missing kidney sections. Dr. William Feldman of the Mayo Clinic last September launched the search in Paris, interrogated Cornil's grandson and laboratory aides, finally dug up some old unidentified kidney slides, and had them forwarded to the Institute of Pathology. But when matched against Cornil's 51-year-old photos last week, the slides did not prove to be the ones; the search...
...complaint from the German Skating Federation, accusing Ronnie Robertson of demanding more than legal expense money for his European exhibitions this winter, threw his second-place victory into doubt. As vocal as any of "the skating mothers," Ronnie's father. Naval Architect Albert R. Robertson, blew his stack: "It's politics, stinking politics." Said Ronnie's coach, Gus Lussi: "The whole thing is fishy, and I think it started in this country, not abroad...