Word: navymen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Effects of Zero-G. The medical concern was not unwarranted. All three astronauts were unsteady as they emerged from the spacecraft, and Astronaut-Physician Kerwin needed a slight assist as the three Navymen walked to a waiting mobile medical lab. Then, as the carrier steamed to San Diego, doctors began an intense, six-hour examination aimed at answering many questions relating to the prolonged flight. For example, had there been irreversible damage to the astronauts' cardiovascular systems or excessive loss of calcium from their bones...
...knowledge of the attempt to overthrow the junta, which government spokesmen initially brushed off as an "operetta" involving "a handful" of men, including two retired admirals. But shortly afterward, 32 senior naval officers were arrested and presumably will be tried on charges of treason. Then 31 other navymen, led by the commander of the destroyer Velos, mutinied and were granted asylum at the port of Fiumicino in Italy. Then the government admitted that the "operetta" had been a serious attempt at revolution...
...brokers for his firms, he has established a $14 million-a-year training center in Los Angeles. So far, it has graduated 72 students; a new class of 600 will start the six-month, eight-hour-a-day course this fall. Perot says he prefers clean-cut ex-Navymen like himself. "I want people to identify with me, to create a closely knit team, rather than the lone wolves that characterize Wall Street," he says. Every duPont graduate has to sign a definitive employment contract that constrains him from leaving the firm for at least a year. But Perot...
...Prince Obolensky is overlooking a pool of highly experienced and talented backgammon players in not hiring retired U.S. Navymen to accompany Playboy bunnies and teach backgammon to "the masses" [Feb. 19]. The Navy's variation of backgammon, acey-deucey, is played extensively on board ships at sea by crusty senior petty officers and chief petty officers. They've even been known to wager "small sums" on the game's outcome...
...orange-and-white parachutes. Then, while a television-equipped helicopter hovered almost directly above it to give the world its first bird's-eye view of a splashdown, the command ship dropped into the gently rolling Pacific. Less than an hour later, Apollo 17's three astronauts-Navymen Gene Cernan and Ron Evans and slightly seasick Civilian Geologist Jack Schmitt-were safely aboard the carrier. "By golly," said Cernan, "it's good to be home...