Word: naval
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rubber sandals. Oddly, that one shipment was sufficient to make 7.5 million pairs, though last year's production in Viet Nam had been no more than 500,000. Du Pont had warned Government men before that the stuff was also a deadly explosive, and AID officials ordered a Naval Ordnance Laboratory test last month to determine its effectiveness. They were surprised to find that the compound is almost as powerful as TNT, and the big order for Unicel was canceled-along with any future shipments to Viet Nam. Administration officials admitted that they had no clear idea...
...THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIE (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). John Paul Jones has Robert Stack playing the naval hero, Charles Coburn as Ben Franklin, Macdonald Carey as Patrick Henry, Jean Pierre Aumont as Louis XVI, and Bette Davis as Catherine the Great. But they had "not yet begun to fight" when they ran out of film...
...Naval Hospital in Oakland, Dr. Frank L. Golbranson has already used instant prostheses to send some Viet Nam battle victims back to active, though limited, duty. Such progress is sure to bring long overdue improvement in treating most of the nation's estimated 30,000 leg amputations a year. With strong Government backing, the new technique probably can be perfected, and enough specialists trained in its use, to make it widely available in less than two years...
...president of a Detroit pipe fitters' local in 1933, then fell into big-time politics, eventually winning a Senate seat, where he concentrated on care for the aged, labor-management relations, highway development and from 1963 the chairmanship of the Public Works Committee; after a stroke; in Bethesda Naval Hospital...
...Despite alleged grading flaws, the Naval Academy last year won six Fulbright scholarships. But, of course, regardless of scholarship, present-day educators are bound to take a dim view of any institution in which there has never been a campus riot or a dirty-speech rally. The academy's mission is to prepare Americans to defend their country at sea. If the professors will consult their history books, they will find that, judging from the Navy's battle record, the academy does a pretty good...