Word: orde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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marines and 2,000 Spanish marines were deployed. High atop a yellow cliff, a Spanish admiral looked down at the smooth flow of men and machines and termed it "an incredibly complex, perfectly organized and flawless operation." It was not entirely flawless. Marine Lieut. Colonel James B. Ord, at an inland command post, noted a column of smoke twisting over pine trees on the horizon. Grumbled Ord: "Some damn fool started a forest fire. I hope they get it out quickly." Then his walkie-talkie man reported: "Two helicopters have collided and crashed." The H-34 choppers, carrying...
Meningitis at Fort Ord...
...would like to compliment TIME on the objective and factual article dealing with meningitis at Fort Ord [Aug. 14]. The story's timeliness, accuracy and fairness were in journalism's best tradition. The restrictions discussed in the article are still in effect, and the command continues to take every preventive action against the disease. ALFRED B. FRAZIN Lieutenant Colonel Information Officer U.S. Army Training Center Fort Ord, Calif...
...effort to halt the epidemic, 3,000 of the soldiers are under drastic quarantine. These are the men who have been on Fort Ord's 29,000 acres of hills and wind-blown sand dunes for less than eight weeks. For reasons that still have medical researchers baffled, only the rawest recruits seem subject to the disease. After a man has spent two months on the post, he apparently develops immunity, and cases among the permanent party are virtually unknown...
...Does It Spread? Fort Ord, on the Monterey peninsula, reported the first cases of its current meningitis epidemic in January. Colonel Ro'land Sigafoos, the base medical officer, was not taken by surprise. There are epidemics every few years in big camps; the Navy had had one only last year at San Diego (TIME, March 22, 1963). Sometimes, daily doses of sulfadiazine are a good preventive, but the meningococcus germs storming Fort Ord were of a type resistant to sulfas...