Word: streamer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Orange Streamer. It was a mercy mission to save the life of Seabee Bethel McMullen of Port Hueneme, Calif., who had fallen from the second story of the McMurdo base fire station and landed so heavily that he nearly scalped himself and suffered cerebral concussion and a fractured spine. Because his legs were paralyzed, McMullen was placed in traction, and word was flashed to Washington that an immediate operation was necessary to save his life. There are no surgeons among the reduced 215-man winter staff on the icecap, and the Navy ordered a U.S. surgical team to risk...
...less space to play with, the Herald Tribune still broke out in a rash of eight stories, as well as a Page One editorial blaming the decline on President Kennedy ("Unease about Mr. Kennedy's course is undeniably a major factor"). Hearst's Journal-American waved one streamer after another, in appropriate red ink. But behind all this breathless coverage lay a fact in which few U.S. papers could take pride. By a country mile, they had missed the biggest financial story of the year...
Among the recipients will be: Eliot L. Gardner '62 (Air Force ROTC), who will receive the Reserve Officers association gold medal; Dennis C. Longwell '62 (Army ROTC), the outstanding com- pany Streamer and Frothingham trophy; Stephen D. Marcus '63 (Army ROTC), the Association of the United States Army medal; and Barry J. O'Keefe '62 (Air Force ROTC), the Professor of Air Science silver medal...