Word: navymen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shipyard that endeared Brooklyn to the U.S. Navy for 160 years is being closed. Already gone is the yard's Sands Street honky-tonk strip-where all real sailors prayed to go to when they died. Says Mrs. Martha Dimmler, Big Martha to Navymen of three wars who packed the Red Mill Bar: "It used to be that no place in the world had wilder, drunker, more wonderful sailors than...
...University of California's Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Sealab is the nation's most ambitious effort thus far to explore and eventually exploit the ocean's great store of food, oil and mineral resources. In Sealab I, which sub merged last year off Bermuda, four Navymen proved that they could stay down at 192 ft. for nine days. Now three teams of ten aquanauts each plan to stay underwater for 15 days at a stretch, with Carpenter remaining a whole month...
...steadily increasing numbers, the U.S. sent men to South Viet Nam. By last week, with the arrival of 1,400 marines who waded ashore near Danang in drizzling rain, there were 33,200 American military men in South Viet Nam itself. In addition, some 27,000 Navymen were on warships patrolling Vietnamese waters...
Quick, Before It Melts explores the comic possibilities of sex in Antarctica and coaxes forth little more than a frozen smile. Against rear-projection views of a place that resembles McMurdo Sound, Director Delbert Mann belabors all the hoariest tricks of his trade. Melts has crazy scientists, sex-starved Navymen, a penguin that delivers radiograms, a seal given to voyeurism, and quips that must have been packed away since Admiral Byrd first visited the place. "We're having a heat wave-darned near up to zero...
Thanks to his wartime record and his cool professionalism, Moorer, at 45, became the youngest man ever to be promoted to admiral. He has been steaming ahead at flank speed ever since. And most Navymen agree that he has even brighter prospects ahead. Said CINCPAC's Admiral Sharp last week: "Tom is an outstanding candidate for the next Chief of Naval Operations...