Word: naval
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Secretary: Naval bases do wonders for a personality. And those bases, among other more nuclear (cough) interests, are what I worry about now. Do you realize that sonuvabitch might actually...
...Said Curtis Lancaster, Smith's football coach at Beaufort: "He always worked particularly hard at science and math because he knew he needed that for what he wanted to do." Smith graduated with honors, was voted Most Outstanding Senior by his classmates and won appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis. He became a pilot and won a chestful of medals during the Viet Nam War. Smith flew 225 combat missions but was never injured, even though his plane was hit by ground fire several times. He later became a test pilot-instructor, did two carrier tours...
John Hagen, the gentle astronomer who was heading the American space probe, Project Vanguard, puffed his pipe in his dingy corner of the Naval Research Laboratory and foresaw the coming competition. But his soul was geared to an earlier age, and his rocket remained rooted to its Cape Canaveral pad. Hagen's men were perfectionists; they were searching for data, not power. And that's where they erred. By then, politics was taking over. The Vanguard was hurried, and when its engine was finally ignited in December 1957, the slender missile lurched and exploded. John Hagen's kindly eyes wept...
...citizens and remain loyal to the King." Then the entourage moved to the royal palace, where the King bestowed on his son the Order of Carlos III, one of Spain's highest honors. Currently a cadet at the Zaragoza Military Academy, Felipe will spend a year each in the naval and air force academies before attending the University of Madrid. And what would the Prince of Asturias like to be if he weren't going to be King Felipe VI? Perhaps in "something technical," he says, "astronomy, construction or engineering...
...Palestinian sources, all of whom were at the meeting, said Khadafy delivered a violent speech attacking the United States in general and President Reagan in particular for ordering sanctions and "threatening" Libya with the naval maneuvers...