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After the procession was over, the dance floor looked and sounded like dockside when the shrimp boats come in: the U.S. Navy's top dog, Admiral Arleigh Burke, resplendent in dress uniform, hopped and dipped in a modified hornpipe; Minnesota's eupeptic Senator Hubert Humphrey, in white tie and tails, exulted in his triumph as a handsome hit, allowed as how he had it over Florida's George Smathers and Massachusetts' Jack Kennedy, the two acknowledged best-looking men in the Senate. George Smathers scarcely missed a dance, raced to and fro between his table...
Before the five men lie bulging portfolios in colored leather: khaki for the Army's General Maxwell Taylor, blue for the Air Force's General Nathan Twining, navy blue for the Navy's Admiral Arleigh Burke, brown for the Marine Corps' General Randolph Pate, and a nonsymbolic black for the fifth man-the quiet man -four-star Admiral Arthur William Radford, 60, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and senior military adviser to the President. Before these five military officers also lies an awesome agenda. It can sweep across the types and size of next...
High over northern Delaware one afternoon last week streaked the U.S. Navy's unique bid for air supremacy-the experimental XP6M-I Seamaster, a giant multi-jet, $6.5 million seaplane proudly described by Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh Burke as the "fastest low-altitude attack aircraft in existence today." Fifty-two minutes before, trailed by an escort plane, the Seamaster had taken off from the Glenn L. Martin plant at Middle River, Md., on a routine test flight. As it yowled along at 22,000 to 25,000 ft. it was a thing of demonic beauty; with...
...report (correctly), would absorb most of the manpower slash. All three service chiefs, the story went on, are in revolt against Radford (incorrect: the Air Force's General Nathan F. Twining is with him, the Army's General Maxwell Taylor and the Navy's Admiral Arleigh Burke against). So torrid is the battle, wrote Leviero, that all discussions of the manpower program have been postponed until after the election...
...Admiral Arleigh A. Burke, Chief of Naval Operations Sc.D...