Word: naval
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...promise of, nothing more than a predictable tapestry of hairbreadth hurry and Navy derring-do, suitable for eventual framing in Hollywood. But like many another literary ship before her, the San Pablo offers a readymade image of a larger society. Both as a licensed literary microcosm and a U.S. naval vessel, she soon turns out to be far from regulation...
...Navy, on the other hand, which is planning a reduction of its program to two years, requires that seven of the eight half-courses be Naval Science offerings...
...them on their way to Florida overnight. Its Philadelphia clothing center dispatched 55,000 camouflage coverings for helmets. Some 850,000 yds. of parachute webbing moved swiftly to Memphis and Fort Bragg. Out of New York, the agency sent 1,000,000 Ibs. of frozen food to deployed naval units, stocked the ships on Cuba patrol with 45 days' worth of supplies. In one week 350,000 ft. of Kodak photo-reconnaissance film sped to Navy and Air Force flyers. The agency summoned 50 railroad presidents to Washington, got agreement on permanent boxcar rates on military cargo, rather than...
Died. Garrett Mattingly, 62, professor of European history at Columbia University since 1948, a Renaissance scholar who won a special Pulitzer citation in 1960 for his bestselling historical study, The Armada, on the defeat of Spain's famously fumbled naval crusade in 1588 against Elizabethan England; of a heart attack; in Oxford, England...
Christmas song and dance taped Dec. 21 at Guantanamo Naval Base, Cuba...