Word: naval
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Hundreds of boats sounded a salute, and dock cranes dipped in tribute as Sir Francis Chichester, waylaid the past month by a duodenal ulcer, at last sailed Gipsy Moth IV up the Thames to the Royal Naval College at Greenwich, where he was formally knighted by Queen Elizabeth with Sir Francis Drake's sword. Later, the solo circumnavigator rode a white Rolls-Royce convertible through London's financial district to the cheers of 250,000 fellow Britons. "You personify the spirit of initiative, adventure and determination," London's Lord Mayor told Chichester at the official city reception...
Quasars, most astronomers agree, are the oldest, brightest, farthest and most mysterious celestial objects known to man. To this list of superlatives, scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory have now added another. After recording X rays emanating from quasar 3C 273-the first time that a quasar has been identified as an X-ray source -Physicists Herbert Friedman and Edward Byram have determined that 3C 273 is also the most powerful X-ray emitter ever discovered...
...Richardson joined Nova, which expects to become one of the first "sea colleges" recently authorized by Congress to handle federal research in oceanography (a concept fathered, not coincidentally, by Nova Adviser Spilhaus). To complete his campus, Winstead persuaded the Government to give Nova 91 acres of a deserted naval air station, got a $1,100,000 federal loan for married students' housing, a $552,000 HEW grant for an educational center...
...Rockefeller's Office of Inter-American Affairs. He earned a commission as a naval aviator, served four years on antisubmarine patrol but never sighted a sub. While in service he married Mary Louise Phillips, a Vassar art major he had met at a postfootball party at Yale. She quit in her senior year to marry him; they now have five children.* Eager for a career in public affairs, he entered Harvard Law School in 1945, because "law schools seem to attract an extraordinary number of the people who have the highest potential of each generation." He made the Harvard...
...seemed impervious to the battering and strain of more than seven months alone at sea, but the elements had obviously taken their toll. Less than a week after his triumphant arrival home, Britain's Circumnavigator Sir Francis Chichester, 65, was hurried to Plymouth's Royal Naval Hospital with a hemorrhage of an unsuspected duodenal ulcer. With Sir Francis berthed for as long as a month, this week's two superceremonies-his formal knighting by the Queen with Sir Francis Drake's sword, and his pandemonious reception by the City of London-have been postponed until...