Word: naval
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hickam Field, U.S.A.F. Gen. Emmett ("Rosie") O'Donnell Jr., 56, leader of the first B-29 raid on Tokyo in 1944, was mustered out after 35 years of service. In the White House Rose Garden, with parallel pomp, U.S.N. Admiral George Anderson Jr., 56, the Chief of Naval Operations who planned and ran the Cuba blockade and then was replaced by President Kennedy, got a gold star (in lieu of a second Distinguished Service Medal) from the President with "strong personal appreciation" for 36 years of service. His next duty tour: Ambassador to Portugal...
...Profumo had lied in denying his relationship with Christine, Ward said on the stand that he had only "a shrewd idea" that they were actually sleeping together, and was horrified when he learned that cash had changed hands. Ward said he even doubted that Christine had slept with Soviet Naval Attache Evgeny Ivanov. "Like a lot of people," purred Ward, "she tells a story often enough and comes to believe it and does tell lies." In any case, he insisted, it was "inconceivable" that he would pimp for his friends...
...years of power, Fidel Castro has nationalized, "intervened" or otherwise appropriated $1 billion worth of U.S. investments in Cuba. Last week, on the eve of the tenth anniversary celebration of his 26th of July movement, he grabbed about the only thing left to take-aside from the big naval base at Guantanamo Bay. Castro "expropriated" the $1,200,000, seven-story former U.S. embassy building on the Havana waterfront...
...Congressman Vinson was keenly interested in national defense. His first speech in the House (in 1916) was a call for greater military preparedness, and he still fondly regards that as one of the best speeches he ever made. He early asked for and got a seat on the old Naval Affairs Committee, and in 1931 the workings of seniority made him chairman. When the House military committees were united in 1947, Vinson became chairman of the new Armed Services Committee, the Representative with the most to say about national defense. His interest in the military brought...
...said Smiling Gaston. All he needed to turn the trick was $104,000 ($100,000 for the kidnapers, $4,000 for expenses). But this would be a highly secret caper, he warned. He gave Mrs. McLean a code name, "11." He would be "27." A U.S. naval officer and a Roman Catholic priest, whom Means brought into the plans, got numbers...