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At Annapolis, four-star Admiral Arthur Radford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, last week exhorted graduating midshipmen to avoid making "a fetish of tradition" and to remember always that the Navy, Army and Air Force "must think as a team, work as a team, and, when necessary, fight...
The All-Nuclear Fleet. At his Pentagon desk, Burke smacks the dottle from his pipe against his heavy Annapolis ring, looks far beyond today's Navy and sees Nautilus as the forerunner of the all nuclear fleet. Burke's Navy no longer makes conventional submarines: the atomic Sea...
About To Be Bilged. The Navy's Burke was born a farm boy near Boulder, Colo., with Baseline Lake (now part of the city's reservoir system) the nearest body of water. His father, Oscar Burke,* was a Swede, and his mother. Claire Mokler Burke, was Pennsylvania Dutch...
Annapolis was tougher for Burke than for most. "I didn't have enough background," he explains. "I nearly bilged out the first year. I had to work like hell, and I got in the habit of it." The habit has never been broken: Burke works from 12 to 14...
Port to Port. On the day he graduated, Ensign Burke walked under crossed swords, amid all the pomp and circumstances of an Annapolis wedding, with pretty Roberta ("Bobbie") Gorsuch of Washington at his side. He had met her as a blind date, gone with her for three years, wearied his...