Word: seale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Academy, wants Annapolis to have a civilian dean, require all its instructors to hold master's degrees. Korth sides with McNamara on the Defense Secretary's decision to award the TFX fighter aircraft contract to General Dynamics, even though Navy experts preferred a Boeing design. He helped seal the dismissal of Chief of Naval Operations George Anderson by not recommending Anderson's reappointment...
...Navy. As versatile as any are the Navy's SEALS, who must be underwater demolition experts, parachutists, land survival specialists and, after a fashion, submariners. Two mothballed troop-carrying subs have been reactivated for use by SEALS, who are skilled at making landings from them. The SEALS are trained, for example, to parachute behind enemy lines to locate downed flyers, lead them to the coast, then hustle them aboard a recovery sub. Based at Little Creek, Va., and Coronado, Calif., the two SEAL teams (60 men to a team), train at their bases or in the Virgin Islands...
...occasionally, but too often his sentences say nothing at all: "Life at college is more than a matter of acquiring knowledge..." And his conclusion is inconclusive, to say the least: "Because truth is not for or against anything. Truth simply is." Father Padberg's "The Word on the Harvard Seal" demonstrates even more unhappily how Truth rarely yields to a frontal assault...
...footsteps, wound up in 1958 working as a virologist at the Rockefeller Institute. He is still there. The Murphys, who have four children, bought a home near Nelson Rockefeller's Pocantico Hills estate in New York's Westchester County, a summer place near Rocky's Seal Harbor, Me., home. Happy's own family had been Main Line friends with the Philadelphia Clarks. Their daughter was Mary Todhunter Clark Rockefeller, tall, reserved former wife of Nelson, mother of his five children. She divorced the Governor in Reno, Nev., in March 1962, after a surprise announcement that...
...portable typewriter up to ten hours before recharging is needed. Auto batteries use lead and acid as the elements to produce their chemical action; nickel-cadmiums use nickel and cadmium electrodes. European engineers after the war developed a way to make them compact in size and to seal them permanently so that no new battery fluid has to be added during their life. Today's vastly more sophisticated nickel-cadmiums need no maintenance, are shockproof and immune to cold, and can be recharged without danger of overcharging...