Word: naval
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your article "Spinning for Space" [March 12] again proves the accuracy of TIME textstyle in presenting the facts of the Navy's Man in Space research. The Naval Air Training Command is very proud of our contribution to the nation's space programs, but to label NAS (Naval Air Station) Pensacola as NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) Pensacola constitutes a TIMEslip. TIME is always welcome at NAS Pensacola...
...arrived in the harbor on a Monday, and by Friday there were only nine. Neapolitans say the missing ship was stealthily sailed out of the port and run aground on the coast ten miles to the south. The cargo was removed and the ship dismantled, piece by piece. American naval officers shrug off the story as apocryphal, but, say Neapolitans, how could any government admit it? "When that news swept the city," wrote the late author Curzio Malaparte, "the laughter seemed like an earthquake...
...cylindrical room at the Pensacola Naval Air Station was spinning around at ten revolutions per minute all last week. Inside it, along with a medical officer, were four young volunteer enlisted men who seemed to have nothing more serious to do than loll around in shorts and T shirts, watch TV, phone girl friends downtown, play catch with a tennis ball or toss darts...
Seagoing Brothels. Elizabeth rewarded him with knighthood, but the King of Spain was less appreciative. He resolved that "England shal smoake," and in 1588 the Duke of Medina Sidonia sailed north with the mightiest naval armament of the age. According to Hakluyt, there were 30,000 men in 134 ships, among them several seagoing brothels and 64 enormous floating forts. The British fleet made a far less impressive array: 12,000 men in 100 ships, and beside the Spanish galleons the British men of war looked like overdecorated dinghies. But the British ships had the advantage of "dexteritie," and most...
Attassi allegedly enlisted his second cousin, a petty officer at a Syrian naval base, and an army major who was actually to steal the data. Attassi said he received approximately $7,500, but the major tattled to his superiors, who fed him phony data to trap...