Word: navymen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Strangely enough for a ship of such sophistication and strategic value, Pueblo had no automatic "destruct" mechanism. As the Koreans swarmed aboard, U.S. Navymen feverishly set fire to the files, dumped documents, shredded the codes, and did their valiant best to wreck the electronic gear with axes, sledge hammers and hand grenades. In the process, apparently, one sailor's leg was blown off and three others were injured. According to a Defense Department official, Bucher's instructions "covered everything except being boarded...
...First Naval District Headquarters in Boston-"the elephant's graveyard," as Navy line officers call it-Alexander will be replaced by Captain Joseph E. Snyder Jr., 43, a veteran of Leyte Gulf and Okinawa's Buckner Bay. No other heads are likely to roll, but many Navymen must be shaking theirs over the fall of Dick Alexander...
...There's nothing like a dame," sang the Navymen in South Pacific. Not so, say physiologists. There are people who are something like a dame but are really men, or even a combination of male and female because nature has scrambled their chromosomes. Last week a star Polish athlete found "herself" in one of these anomalous categories and was barred on medical grounds from international competition...
Neat Feat. One area in which the F-lll has been an unqualified success is its revolutionary swing-wing design. The wings work perfectly. But while the F-lll's builder, General Dynamics, fell behind schedule trying to satisfy airmen, Navymen and McNamara men, the Soviet Union scored a neat feat of copycatting. At last July's Moscow air show, it displayed two new swing-wing combat planes, including one that had unquestionably profited from the tribulations of the F-lll. The Russians' Mikoyan-designed fighter has its air ducts placed far forward on the fuselage, apparently...
Class No. 5-bringing to 50 the total roster of active astronauts-is younger and better educated than the original Mercury team (32.8 years v. 34.5; 5.8 years of college v. 4.3). All 19 are seasoned jet pilots. Seven are Air Force officers, six Navymen, two Marines and four civilians. One, Air Force Captain Joe H. Engle, who last June rocketed an X-15 experimental plane to an altitude of 53.1 miles, has already reached the lower fringes of space. Two are Viet Nam veterans: Lieut. Commander Paul J. Weitz, recently returned home after flying 132 combat missions...