Word: navymen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Belgrano naval base, a group of officers wanted an end to all talk about elections, argued for the ouster of Guido as President and the establishment of a "benevolent dictatorship" that would attempt to stabilize the economy and "normalize" the political situation. Though his forces were small-25,000 navymen and 17,000 marines, compared with 87,000 men in the army and 22,000 in the air force-Admiral Palma enlisted the support of a clutch of retired army officers, hoping that they would encourage army and air force units to come over. He was also pledged help from...
...challenging situation, such as having to do tests in a room kept as noisy as a boiler factory, extra sleep reduced efficiency for some navymen. High strung subjects, after loss of sleep, turned in better-than-usual performances. A full night's sleep seemed to restore their tensions...
...slowly than typical cholera. Mass inoculations might have helped, but government and antigovernment forces, burning with election fever, accused each other of cornering vaccine for their partisans. The government welcomed a U.S. Navy team of veteran cholera fighters from Formosa, but failed to use vigorously the weapon that the Navymen recommended: salt water. Cholera victims are weakened and killed by a catastrophic loss of body fluids through vomiting and diarrhea (as many as 15 quarts in a day); they can nearly always be saved by prompt, aggressive treatment, in which saline solution is given intravenously, sometimes with sodium bicarbonate...
Lost Sale. Two weeks ago. Harris seized a patrol boat that had been sailed to the U.S. by three defecting Castro navymen. By last week he had a buyer ready to pay $55,000 for the vessel-when the U.S. State Department suddenly announced that the boat was protected by diplomatic immunity and must be returned to Cuba. Although the State Department claimed that no "swap" was involved, it was hardly a coincidence that that same day Castro released an Eastern Air Lines Electra valued at $2,500,000, that had been hijacked and flown to Havana on July 24th...
Perhaps surprisingly, the Navy's brass liked what it heard, responded to Connally's speech with warm applause. If, as his speech suggested, Connally was going to be a salty and vigorous leader, the Navymen seemed happy to have him at the helm. And he might even make a dent in the featherbed...