Inside the UDT: Naval frogmen face perilous training and missions
A vivid portrait of the U S Navy Underwater Demolition Team. Elite volunteers train at Little Creek and Coronado through a grueling two month course capped by Hell Week. They deploy to clear beach obstacles at Guam and elsewhere using explosives while braving fire and fatigue.
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Jerome Dreyer
Central Press
U.S. Navy
UDT
Guam
Pacific
Kilroy
Navy
Little Creek
Coronado
Cal
Marijuana Fund Admitted By Railroader
GOSHEN Indiana. A 63 year old railroad laborer admitted he made 3000 dollars picking marijuana along railroad tracks and selling it to Chicago narcotics dealers. Duke Lattimore was charged with possession after about seven pounds of dried leaves were found under his cot at the work camp. Sheriff Vernon Crip said Lattimore confessed he planned to sell to a Chicago agent and had been stripping leaves for ten years.
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Goshen
Ind
Chicago
Duke Lattimore
Vernon Crip
Lattimore
Baltimore and Ohio
Walrus colony in Gulf of St Lawrence destroyed by hunts
Historic note recalls Great herds of walruses in the Gulf of St Lawrence dwindled after widespread slaughter, mainly for oil, erasing the colony more than a century ago.
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Gulf of St. Lawrence
Famed Scientist Predicts No A Bomb Destruction
Harvard President Dr. James Bryant Conant outlined six predictions for the second half of the 20th century. He foresaw no world destruction by atomic bombs, solar energy dominating power production, seawater desalination becoming economical, birth control accepted globally, synthetic production of carbohydrates for beverages, and a forceful stance by Atlantic Treaty nations toward the Soviet Union. He cautioned that 1954 would not bring disaster, noting undamaged cities since World War II.
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Paul F. Ellis
United Press
New York
James Bryant Conant
Harvard University
Paris
Berlin
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Moscow
Conant
Nehru
India
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