Word: arleigh
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Testifying before the Russell-chaired Armed Services Committee, Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh ("31 Knot") Burke views the House-revised defense reorganization bill from his own bridge, endorses two House changes sharply limiting the Defense Secretary's authority over the services-changes that Commander in Chief Eisenhower had rapped as a "legalized bottleneck" and an "endorsement of duplication and standpattism" (TIME. June...
...aboard, had gone 8,727 miles under water, beat Seawolf in an informal competition by staying down 31 days, 5 hours, 30 minutes. Throughout, Seawolf and Skate performed their secret missions in such a routine way that they won a "well done" from Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh Burke. Said Burke, in reference to the fact that the picked crews weathered the sealed-up, shut-in duty with no difficulties: "Space-life existence under actual working conditions was proved a reality...
...another big moment in the Pacific. In the years between, he had won the Legion of Merit commanding the light carrier Chenango off Okinawa (1945), worked up through the postwar Pentagon and carrier commands to boss the Mediterranean Sixth Fleet (1956), pinned on his fourth star as Admiral Arleigh Burke's Vice Chief of Naval Operations (1956-58). Last week he was named Commander in Chief, Pacific, with 500,000 men, 400 ships, 2,500 planes, to do the job of deploying U.S. power and backstopping U.S. diplomacy from Alaska to the Indian Ocean. And Flyer Don Felt...
...Admiral Arleigh Burke, Chief of Naval Operations, was polite-but his meaning was clear. Navyman Burke's key words: "misgivings," "apprehensions." The law, said he, could be interpreted at some future date "to mean things that the Secretary and the President did not mean." Could it permit the Secretary to eliminate a specific function of one of the services? "People do that, sir," said Burke pointedly. "People eliminate things." Arleigh Burke's statement was an unmistakable call to the committee for help: "This committee is a proper group to resolve these differences into a sound plan founded...
Instant Thrust. The Navy first hit full speed with the Polaris system early last year, after it ditched the idea of adapting the Army's bulky liquid-fuel Jupiter for shipboard use. As Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Arleigh Burke said, the Navy needed "an IRBM with salt water in its veins." Burke picked peppery, redheaded Rear Admiral William Francis Raborn Jr., 52, to run the Polaris program, tossed Raborn a bankroll of $37 million for a start. "Red" Raborn, who moves so fast that he will only drink instant coffee (and sometimes a Scotch-and-water), rounded...