Word: rears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...retirement because of age, Congress that year passed the so-called "Tombstone Law." Under it, all battle-cited Navy, Marine and Coast Guard officers are promoted one grade upon being piped out of service. This allowed a generous wash of war-decorated four-stripe captains, for example, to engrave "Rear Admiral" across their business cards, social invitations-and tombstones...
Several weeks ago Congress, in a tidy-up move, voted to scuttle the Tombstone Law, and the special privilege it gave to the Navy Department. Since then, a couple of dozen Navy captains and five rear admirals have put in for retirement before Nov. 1. when the Tombstone Law goes out of operation. And last week three of the U.S. Marine Corps' four top officers decided that they too should depart before the deadline. The three, all lieutenant generals: Vernon E. Megee, 59, commanding the Fleet Marine Forces in the Pacific; Edwin A. Pollock, 60, commanding...
Powering Challenger I were four 1959 Pontiac engines-two driving the front wheels, two the rear-that delivered a total of 1,800 h.p. on alcohol and nitromethane. The engines were coordinated by a hydraulic arm that controlled all four clutches simultaneously. Said Mickey: "We want to prove we can coax more speed out of one engine-or two, or three, or four-than any other men alive...
...high, fixed base. First-class passengers enter a short jetwalk that leads to the plane's front door via a short gondola that slides to the door on a monorail. Other passengers walk a longer distance along a jet-walk that runs parallel to the plane, enter the rear door through a telescoping corridor that can be moved out to the door on wheels. Both devices are operated electrically from a console that can raise, lower or telescope the ramp to suit the plane...
...each weekday, two Cadillacs purr up to the front and rear doors of the modern, lawn-surrounded factory of the Kaynar Corp. in Los Angeles. Brainy, lightly muscled Kenneth Reiner. 43, Kaynar's president, gets out at the rear door. Brawny (5 ft. 8 in.. 165 Ibs.), outgoing Frank Klaus, 44, vice president and treasurer, gets out at the front. Each is careful not to meet the other...