Word: naval
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pulitzer Prizes for his biographies of Christopher Columbus and John Paul Jones. He is also the author of the 15-volume History of U.S. Naval Operations in World...
...Chief of Staff. Wheeler's appointment is another break in the tradition of rotating the Joint Chiefs' chairmanship among the three services. This happened partly by a process of elimination. Air Force Chief of Staff Curtis LeMay, 57, is scheduled to retire next February. The Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral David McDonald, 57, has been on the job only since last August, is still learning the ropes. That left "Bus" Wheeler for the top service job-which suited Defense Secretary Robert McNamara just fine. Wheeler is McNamara's kind of general-a skilled staff officer who specializes...
President Johnson ordered 200 sailors from the Meridian Naval Auxiliary Air Station into Neshoba County to join in the search (the White House, through a mistake, at first announced that the sailors were marines, bringing screams of anguish from segregationists about another federal invasion of the South). Armed only with sticks to protect themselves against the water moccasins and rattlers that abound in the area, the sailors tucked and taped up their pants legs to ward off mosquitoes and chiggers, began poking under every bush and peering down every abandoned well...
Anne-Marie, who belongs to Europe's oldest dynasty, is a distant cousin of her husband-to-be*,-and is also a descendant of Queen Victoria, Constantine's great-great-grandmother. They first met in July 1957, when she was not quite eleven and he was a naval cadet on a Greek training ship. The rumors started four years later. Anne-Marie, who was not overly bright as a student, attended two Swiss schools to learn French but got most of her education at the private coed Zahle School in Copenhagen. One day, startled by a piercing wolf...
...were forced to pay an exorbitant reparations bill: 17,680 square miles of territory and $300 million worth of goods, including industrial products that they had no means of producing. It took know-how as well as sisu, but they did it. The Russians, who had also occupied the naval stronghold of Porkkala just west of Helsinki, finally withdrew...