Word: naval
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...occupation of Haiti. The military-affairs writer for the Detroit News, Robert D. Heinl Jr., a retired Marine colonel, says that the theses also bear strange similarities to an official 1934 Marine Corps report and a 1939 Marine history of the American intervention. In 1955, when the Naval Institute published McCrocklin's dissertation as a book, it listed him as "compiler" rather than author. In Who's Who in America, however, McCrocklin credited himself as author. Often mentioned as a candidate for the presidency of the University of Texas when L.B.J. begins teaching there next year, McCrocklin...
Like many scientists before him, Metallurgist William Buehler was blessed with serendipity, the gift of finding something valuable without actually looking for it. Assigned by the Naval Ordnance Laboratory in Maryland to find a nonmagnetic and noncorroding material for tools that could be safely used in dismantling magnetic mines, he finally hit upon 55-Nitinol, a nickel-titanium alloy. During further experiments, however, he discovered that the alloy also had a strange and mysterious quality in the realm of science fiction: It had a "memory...
...ambassador, naturally shocked Washington, Guatemalans were not so startled. Since civilian rule supplanted a rigid military regime in 1966, Communist and right-wing terrorists have killed some 2,000 people in their running crossfire-among them two U.S. military advisers, Army Colonel John Webber Jr. and Naval Lieut. Commander Ernest Munro, who were murdered in Guatemala City last January. The killing of Ambassador Mein ended a promising four-month lull in Guatemala's violence. It set back hopes for new political stability, encouraged only last month when President Julio César Méndez Montenegro's moderate...
...chiefs in a single, deft purge. The move rid General Onganía of a significant liberal military opposition and gave him near-absolute power for the first time in his 26 months in office. The officers he sacked were Lieut. General Julio Alsogaray, Admiral Benigno Varela, commander of naval operations, and Brigadier General Adolfo Alvarez, air force commander in chief...
...year which put in question most of the assumptions on which the U.S. based its foreign power as well as its domestic politics and peace. In January came the first seizure of a U.S. warship on the high seas in more than 150 years-not by some great naval nation but by North Korea, which escaped unscathed. North Viet Nam launched the Tet offensive, stunning Saigon and temporarily capturing Hue. By February, George Romney was an ex-presidential candidate, while Nelson Rockefeller played Hamlet, thus opening the way for Richard Nixon, the perennial loser, whose chances had been so widely...