Word: naval
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President got into motion by visiting Bethesda Naval Hospital to call on several ailing legislators-including Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, undergoing treatment for a urinary-tract infection. While there, he dropped in on Viet Nam casualties in the neuro-surgical ward. One young marine, Lance Corporal Virgil Bohler of Silsbee, Texas, had been there in October when Lyndon came by while recuperating from his gall-bladder operation. At that time, Bohler lay unconscious and near death with a bullet wound in his head...
...results are finishes that are impersonal, materials that are industrial: plastic, Formica, steel, chrome plate, baked enamel, fluorescent lights. One of the artists in the exhibition studied naval architecture, another engineering. Their lingo is strictly post-Einstein; they speak of their art in terms of space warp, time lines, and optic energy...
Cadets in Naval Sci. 52, the course for prospective Marine officers, answer questions like, "Describe brief the manner in which the Viet Cong approaches the problem of winning the support ...of the South Vietnam ese villager," or "What does (Vo Nguyen) Giap consider the really decisive factor for victory in any revolutionary...
Military and Naval Science course though not exactly guts, are among Harvard's less demanding offerings. According to the Office of Tests, the average Naval cadet scores half of a grade point higher on his NROTC courses than in his other courses. Cadets consider the easy B in a half-course one of the attractive fringe-benefits of ROTC...
Another cadet says that he joined NROTC because he was planning a Naval career, but that he has since changed his mind. "I think there's more opportunity outside the Navy. The hierarchy makes it hard to get ahead...