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...Quonset-hut courtroom in Seoul last week, an eight-man court-martial meted out punishment: two years in prison and dismissal from the service for 2nd Lieut. James D. Goff. Goff smiled in relief: he had had good reason to expect a much heavier sentence. Last December, with three Negro enlisted men, he had entered a Korean's house, presumably looking for stolen property, and had pistol-whipped to death an innocent Korean Presbyterian minister who protested...
Dave Hawkins set a pool record of 24.2 seconds in the 50 yard freestyle and the swimmers went on to beat a Quonset Naval Air Station team, 43 to 32, at Quonset. John Holcenberg who won the 100 yard breaststroke and Ed Benton who won the 100 yard backstroke were also members of the winning 150 yard medley relay team, along with Doug Mansfield...
...other extreme, the swimming team reaches the neo-graduate school level when it takes on the Quonset Naval air Station at Quonset...
December 13, at Andover (informal); 17, M.I.T. January 8, at Brookline High. February 4, at Brown; 7, LaSalle Academy; 11, at Quonset Naval Air Station; 14, at Exeter; 21, Andover; 25, Dartmouth; 28, St. George's School. March 7, Yale...
...Congregation of Religious, set the tone: "Our gathering is a congress which is both genuinely religious and typically American." The overtones of the convention were simon-pure American, down to name badges for the delegates, a humorously written guide book, and a meeting place in a vast, Quonset-type building draped with U.S. flags and the Notre Dame college colors. Although there was no doubting the basic orthodoxy of the delegates' theology, some of the sentiments expressed would have sounded odd in conservative quarters of the Vatican, and downright heretical in Cardinal Segura's Seville (see below...