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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brick walls which aren't covered with Ivy. The rooms are large, aired by breezes from the Charles, and only six minutes from the Yard. No showers. During the winter the river can be seen through the bare trees lining Memorial Drive. Leaves make it more difficult to catch sight of the practicing crews during spring and fall...
...lack of radical individuality, Winthrop proudly points to superintendent Gordon Ramey and his assistant Dan Cannon. The super's super, Ramey knows everyone in the house by sight. And Cannon is Ireland's gift to tired Winthrop furniture. Here a nail and there a nail and between the two forty-year-old Gore and Standish Halls never show their...
...back to pre-Korean war days: sand slipped into lubricating systems and steering gear, wiring cut, gauges and indicators smashed, equipment and ammunition thrown overboard at sea. Early this year, a stoker on the light aircraft-carrier Ocean was caught and sentenced to 15 months for smashing pressure gauges, sight glasses, clocks, lights and other equipment. When H.M.S. Eagle, Britain's newest, biggest and costliest carrier, left Portland last month, she could fire no salute because the guns had been disabled. Also, the ammo blanks had apparently been tossed over the side...
...needle into a vein in the hollow of the child's elbow (what doctors call the antecubital fossa) and snapped a vacuum seal. Immediately the tube began to fill with blood. Most of the youngsters watched with impersonal detachment, and girls were no more upset by the sight of blood than boys. (These blood samples will be tested to see how many children already had antibodies to one or another type of polio virus. In the forthcoming national trials, no more than 10% of the children will be asked to give blood for a cross-section sampling...
...dawn on March 1, a Marine corporal on lonely Kwajalein saw an awesome sight. "All of a sudden," he wrote his mother, "the sky lighted up, a bright orange, and remained that way for what seemed like a couple of minutes . . . We heard very loud rumblings that sounded like thunder. Then the whole barracks began shaking as if there had been an earthquake. This was followed by a very high wind." In another letter, two days later, the corporal reported that two U.S. destroyers pulled into Kwajalein with victims of atomic radiation...