Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minutes and ten seconds, the U.S. and the world hung upon what was said, shortly after 9 a.m. of a sunny Florida day, in the bachelor officers' quarters of the U.S. Naval Base at Key West. Behind a steel table stood the President, looking a bit thin about the face and neck, but tanned and healthy. "First of all," he said to the reporters, "the doctor tells me that what he calls my vital capacity is very much improved. I don't know...
...Columbine III, the President reached Key West in 3½ hours. He was accompanied by his brother, Dr. Milton Eisenhower, and Mamie Eisenhower would follow them down for New Year's weekend. He got a rousing welcome as he drove from Boca Chica Naval Air Station to the Key West U.S. Navy Base, passing along Roosevelt Boulevard, Truman Street (which sports a Margaret Truman Launderette) and by Eisenhower Drive, which had been known, until the night before his arrival, as North Beach Road. Not three hours afterwards, the President was happily whacking golf balls...
...major questions which are causing concern in our relations with the Soviet Union, there has been an accumulation of minor incidents . . . Little or no progress has been made in getting Soviet approval for our air teams to visit Soviet-controlled territory for appraisal of bomb damage, or for our naval team to [inspect the port of] Gdynia. Both proposals were agreed to at Yalta." And so on, around the world, the 43 documents add to the background of the lost peace...
Support for Dr. Lippisch's work has come from the Office of Naval Research and Collins Radio. The Air Force has shown little interest. Dr. Lippisch hopes to have a piloted, 2,500-lb. aerodyne flying in 1956. Then, he dreams, the Air Force generals may look...
...Plata, a meat-packing city 35 miles southeast of Buenos Aires, and arrested some 50 persons. Among them were General Heraclio Ferrazzano and Colonel Norberto Ugolini, a pair of cashiered officers, who, loyal to ex-Strongman Juan Perón, fought off insurrectionists at the Rio Santiago naval base during last September's successful anti-Perón revolution. Police followed up by questioning between 400 and 500 other known Peronistas...