Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Last week Defense Secretary Thomas S. Gates, 54, called seven top U.S. generals and admirals from command posts around the world to a meeting at the Pentagon and set forth a new plan. Gates is a normally reticent fellow who served as Under Secretary of the Navy, Secretary of the Navy and Deputy Secretary of Defense before taking over the top defense job late last year. He came out of the meeting calling it "my greatest decision in my eight years in the Pentagon...
...decision amounts to an imaginative compromise between what the Strategic Air Command wanted and what the Navy wanted. SAC proposed that all strategic weapons be brought under the command of SAC headquarters in Omaha. The Navy, which has to allow for its carriers and subs moving around from place to place, wanted its own target assignments to be left up to Navymen...
...every 90.6 min. at an altitude of 198.8 miles, its powerful radios broadcast its presence to listening stations all over the world. A ham radio operator in Cleveland tracked its course across the summer sky for a full eleven minutes. On its 18th pass around the world, an electronic command flashed up from earth, triggered rockets that altered the satellite's course and pointed it back toward earth. A quick blast from retrorockets slowed its descent, and a special thermal shield protected the satellite's skin against the heat generated by rapid descent through the earth...
Dead Ahead. Four minutes after Discoverer's capsule dropped back toward earth at an electronic command. Captain Mitchell picked up radio signals and spotted its brightly colored parachute, dead ahead at 16,000 ft. Under his fuselage, in an inverted V, hung twin 38-ft. booms; between them, trapeze-fashion, stretched a nylon rope and a grappling hook with which Mitchell hoped to foul the cords of Discoverer's parachute, snag its canopy. Winch operators would then take over, reel the dangling capsule into the plane. At 12,000 ft. Mitchell made a pass-and missed...
...greatest hero. But only the naval garrison and a few Britons beleaguered in the shadow of Gibraltar's rock knew what had happened off Cape Trafalgar that October day in 1805. A howling westerly gale bedeviled Cuthbert Collingwood, Vice Admiral of the Blue, who had succeeded to command of the victorious British fleet, and his ships were fighting for their lives, trying to claw off a lee shore. Five days whistled through the rigging before Collingwood could dispatch the tidings on which the world hung...