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...glowing aftermath of the airmen's release, things seemed somehow different. The Administration went out of its way to prevent anything that might offend Khrushchev or otherwise cause international ill will. Jack Kennedy imposed strict controls on "tough" policy speeches by Pentagon leaders: Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh Burke was required to rewrite a speech almost completely; Air Force Chief of Staff Thomas D. White was questioned about two paragraphs in a speech that was finally cleared. The Administration also asked for a postponement until March on a Warsaw meeting to discuss the bitter issue of five American civilians...
...Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean. In all these jobs he tightened his reputation as a demanding skipper, an arrogant, caustic perfectionist who let his subordinates know exactly what he wanted, and who got just that. Ashore, his big break came when he went to work for Rear Admiral Arleigh Burke, then chief of the Navy's Strategic Plans Division. Burke was already under way toward his present job as Chief of Naval Operations, and he towed Felt with him toward...
Four years ago Admiral Arleigh Burke, U.S. Chief of Naval Operations, decided that South America's navies-at times the butt of jokes-could patrol their own waters with the proper equipment and know-how. Burke saw real defense potential in the total of 390 vessels (see map) and 55,000 men. Only landlocked Bolivia has no navy; backward Paraguay, with a 1,100-mile river link its only outlet to the sea, boasts two gunboats-and two rear admirals...
...Rear Admiral William Raborn Jr., boss of the Navy's Polaris project, gave orders to get ready for a second shot before a proud succinct message was sent to President Eisenhower in Newport: "Polaris, from out of the deep to target. Perfect." In a second message to Admiral Arleigh Burke, chief of naval operations, Red Raborn let go all the pent-up exuberation of a classic achievement: "This new star of peace hoisted a trail of missile smoke from salt water to space as a signal of a bright new addition to seapower, a new strategic...
...Admiral Arleigh Burke's plan to spell Kom-munism with a "K" in the future [April 4], in order to identify it with Khrushchev, needs additional strategic planning. For "Khrushchev" is not spelled in Russian with the "K" of Kommunism, but with an "X," pronounced like the "ch" in "Loch." (In fact, Khrushchev should not be referred to as "Mr. K." but rather...