Word: naval
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Approved, by an 84-0 vote in the Senate, a $1.2 billion annual pay raise for members of the U.S. armed services. A key feature of the bill is that the highest increases - of up to 25.7%-go to younger officers, Army majors, captains and first lieutenants, and their naval equivalents. These men are reaching the decision point of their careers-to stay or not to stay in the service. Thus, while a service chief of staff would get a $95-per-month raise (to a total of $26,628 a year), an Army major would be boosted...
...last week, the Senator left the Senate floor, complaining of an upset stomach. Less than 36 hours later he died in Bethesda Naval Hospital of a ruptured main heart artery...
...last the papers could break out pictures of the contessa, who turned out to be no contessa at all, but Maria Christina Vettore Austin. Born in Venice 36 years ago of well-to-do parents, she cultivated a taste for international high life, and married and divorced a British naval officer named William Austin, now dead. Christina and Henry Ford met in Paris at a party given by Grace Kelly Rainier...
...latest schemes, which is limited to 150 daring girls between the tender age of 17 and the maturity of 21, is a visit to the docks of the U.S.S. Intrepid for what has been termed a "Tea Dance" by Navy officials. Midchtpenon from the Naval Academy will be on board. Those wishing to join them in this maneuver Thursday should enlist at the Social Director's office today by 1700 hours...
...from boats for weekend sailing. In 1957 he drew up a list of 35 specifications a weekend boat ought to have, but he could not sell Fairey on the idea. So O'Day, with a handful of U.S. sailing friends, decided to produce the boat himself. Famed British Naval Architect Uffa Fox got the design contract. The boat that came off Fox's drawing board, christened the Day Sailer, was enough to make an old yacht-club commodore choke...