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He is a bear for facts and figures, probes relentlessly for details of minor operations and files them away in his Univac memory. He works, as one sad assistant puts it, "as though there were no holidays, Saturdays and Sundays, and expects others to do the same." One staff officer...
Last week St. John's College, which is just across the street from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., showed the way. President Richard D. Weigle invaded Manhattan to find foundation cash for his venture. St. John's aims to reproduce itself in as many as six...
In Annapolis, Joe Curnane, a Massachusetts undertaker who looks after Jack Kennedy's political interests in Maryland, hooked his forefingers in his vest and put the heat on 48 Tidewater ward lords for sizable campaign contributions. "It gets better every day," he said. "I'd hate to see...
Rear Admiral William L. Erdmann spent 36 years in the U.S. Navy building a reputation as a hard-nosed officer with a magnificent temper and a monumental self-confidence. From Coronado (where the enlisted men's beach was named Erdmann Beach) to Guam (where he stirred up a superb...
The Navy did not hesitate, nor did it follow the example of other services and call in civilian industry to run its program. Chief of Naval Operations Burke issued orders to Rear Admiral William Francis Raborn Jr., 55, a bluff, barrel-chested navigator who had never seen the sea before...