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...World. To this end, the Navy has established a squad of civilian psychologists at Camp Elliott, to work with selected inmates to find out what makes the problem sailor or marine break step. Head of the squad is James Douglas Grant, 37, a burly, six-foot Stanford graduate, with an infectious grin and a saddle-tanned bald head, who has three immediate aides but can draw on the help of Camp Elliott's 400-man staff if he needs it. Grant's first problem was to find a yardstick for his research. "A man's intelligence quotient...
...have read "The Quality of Citizenship" in the June 27 issue ... I felt no sorrow over the Chinese sailor losing his white wife whose marriage was annulled, but I was astonished to see the verdict of Justice Buchanan of the Virginia Supreme Court: "... the state . . . will preserve the racial integrity . . . not have a mongrel breed . . . prevent the obliteration of racial pride" . . . as against such American national slogans as "equality," "land of freedom," etc. I am proud of my race...
...Mont, 54, in his 54-ft. Trumpy-built cruiser Hurricane III. An engineer by profession (and president of the $63 million Allen B. Du Mont Laboratories, Inc., which manufactures television sets and a variety of other electronic instruments), he had figured his time with professional precision. A seasoned sailor, he had laid out his course with professional skill...
Best of Ten. Off Plum Island, Skipper Du Mont got the kind of break no sailor can guess in advance: he came upon a boat in distress. The ketch Rolling Stone, out of Red Bank, N.J., was rolling in the easy swell, her ensign flying upside down from the mizzenmast. She had lost her rudder shaft. Under the rules, no matter how much time Dr. Du Mont lost going to her aid, he would get a perfect score for leg 6. Within minutes, the Coast Guard had been called by radio, and Hurricane III was back on course...
...practice, 20-54 is peacefully implemented not in the courts but in the local marriage-license bureaus. A test case arose in 1953, however, in which a white woman petitioned the courts in Portsmouth, Va. to annul her marriage to her Chinese sailor husband of 15 months...