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Nevertheless, both Moore and Murdock, and particularly the latter, performed their duties capably, and under them the deanship gained in influence until under Murdock it became fective administrative unit...
Less frequently used as an official unit of admeasurement of merchant ships is displacement tonnage. This is the actual weight of a ship at a given time, empty or otherwise. The displacement tonnage of a ship increases according to the weight of fuel, passengers, mail or freight with which it is burdened...
...outfit depends on the skill and dependability of each man, the Special Forces operate under a unique system of choosing personnel for combat. After a detachment has been through maneuvers, every member-officer and enlisted man alike-has the right to blackball any other member right out of the unit. Of the 100 men originally picked for a tour of duty in South Viet Nam, only 32 survived the screening and the blackballing. "There's nothing personal about the blackballing," says an officer. "Everyone understands the process. It's just that where we go, there is no margin...
Powers had cooperated with his Soviet captors to the point of revealing the name of the unit commander who had given him his orders; he admitted making previous flights along the Russian border, and acknowledged at his Moscow trial that as an aerial agent he had performed "very ill service." Had Powers been brainwashed? Why had he not fired the charges that would have destroyed his plane? How high was he flying when hit-and what had hit him? Was it, as Khrushchev claimed, a Russian rocket at 68,000 ft.? Or did he have a flameout...
...perfectionist and tough taskmaster, Szell runs the orchestra like a military unit, refers to his concertmaster as his "chief of staff." Now some 20 members larger than it used to be, the Cleveland Orchestra plays a 40-week season, tours extensively, and rarely faces anything less than a sold-out house. On its European tour in 1957, it astounded audiences and critics, who had never dreamed of such an orchestra "in the wilds of provincial America...