Word: naval
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...cost, or even to participate. Thus the U.S., which has promised to contribute 40%, and persuaded the Germans to pledge another 40%, has finally put pressure on Britain. To Whitehall's dismay, Washington announced that its top MLF expert, Admiral Claude Ricketts, deputy chief of naval operations, would fly to London this week to discuss the government's technical reservations and satisfy British complaints that they have so far received nothing but "computer answers" from the Pentagon. Said one British official gleefully: "We've got a lot of naughty questions...
Upon announcing that Admiral George W. Anderson Jr. would not be reappointed as Chief of Naval Operations, President Kennedy promised that Anderson would be given a post of "high responsibility. " Last week, after an hour's talk with Anderson, the President picked the new job: Ambassador to Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazars Portugal...
...medics at the huge San Diego Naval Training Center were baffled. They had beaten off one epidemic of meningitis among 12,000 seamen recruits, and they were confident that they were doing just what was needed to guard against another attack. They issued mountains of sulfadiazine tablets, and ordered everybody on the base to take two a day. The dosage was supposed to clean out transient meningococci, the microbes that cause this form of inflammation of the brain covering. But for five weeks, sporadic new cases of meningitis kept cropping up. The Navy flew in Dr. Harry A. Feldman...
Busy with the crisis in Birmingham last week, President Kennedy switched on a TV set to catch the news. Up came the face of a newscaster, saying: "The Administration today denied charges by a Texas Congressman that two Marine officers at the Guantánamo Naval Station shot and killed Vice President Lyndon Johnson during a tour of defense installations and secretly buried his body on the base...
Alexander A. McDonell '63 was named the Naval ROTC senior displaying outstanding traits of leadership; and David R. Downer. Jr '63 was named the senior outstanding for "leadership, academic studies, military bearing, discipline, and related traits," among Air Force ROTC students. James H. Bondison '63 received a similar citation from Army ROTC...