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This week TIME does. While congressional committee rooms were thronged with witnesses and spectators. TIME'S editors were completing a searching examination of the "new" Navy, its boss, Arleigh ("31-knot") Burke, and the Navy's role in the atomic...
...Navy and all its traditions, is plunging ahead in a new and astonishing naval era at the same hell-for-weather clip described by a destroyer shipmate from the Solomons Slot: "It's always been the same. All boilers on the line, superheaters cut in. Arleigh Burke...
...Admiral Arleigh Burke, 54, blue eyes for the moment behind horn-rimmed glasses, looks past the curtains: on his maps, pinpointing every major warship and command, are the symbols of his Navy's revolution...
...direction of Captain Hyman Rickover. Some of the salt-encrusted admirals had sneered at Rickover's folly and his obstreperous methods, obstructed him for five long and crucial years, tried to break up his team and even to get him tossed out of the Navy. It remained for Arleigh Burke, Chief of Naval Operations since last August, to realize fully what Nautilus meant, to pick up where the engineers had left off and, as a professional Navy man, to turn the professional Navy once and for all toward the future...
...missile carrier, is a busy floating laboratory for missile development. Two conventional submarines. Tunny and Barbero, have been converted to missiles, and two more conversions are authorized. The Navy is asking funds for five more cruiser conversions, along with four new missile-launching frigates and eight destroyers. Arleigh Burke sees in the missile a chance that the battleship (the Navy has three afloat, 12 in mothballs) may be brought from semiretirement: it might, he thinks, be just the big, steady sea platform needed for launching the intermediate-range (1,500 miles) ballistic missile, Jupiter, on which the Navy and Army...