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...salt with combat service during World War II and the Korean War, Ford arranged to put out with the fleet on three weeks' temporary active duty. Flying to Marseille, he caught up with the cruiser U.S.S. Columbus, joined the staff of an old war buddy, Rear Admiral John Bulkeley, who commands a Sixth Fleet flotilla. Admiral Ford posed on the bridge like Captain Bligh, then settled down to his duty for the Mediterranean exercises: conducting a shipboard seminar on filmmaking...
Reversed Decision. The televised debate itself was an anticlimax. Matmaned lads and lasses who had come along to vote (some of them more than once) yelped cheerfully when Oxford Student Rip Bulkeley maintained that he opposed the defense of Britain but would be willing to bear arms "against the Rhodesians, South Africans or what have you." Guest Speaker Sir Richard Acland, 58, an ex-Labor M.P. who left the party because it was too conservative in 1955, sniffed that he considered Harold Wilson's administration capable of assessing the national peril "only if 50 million Siberian soldiers were climbing...
...boat commander in World War II, John D. Bulkeley rescued General Douglas MacArthur from Corregidor and won a Congressional Medal of Honor for "extraordinary heroism." A rear admiral now and C.O. of the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Bulkeley, 52, is not the sort to take any guff from Fidel Castro. Last week, when Castro accused the base of using suction pumps to draw off on the sly some 114,000 gallons of Cuban water daily, Bulkeley replied: "Hogwash." Guantanamo was using its own water - the mains from Cuban territory were shut tight. "Castro is calling me a liar...
Bread & Butter Note. In New London, Conn., a burglar broke into Bulkeley Junior High School, cooked himself a meal in the home economics room, took $110 from the principal's office, chalked a note on the blackboard: "I'm sorry...
Married. Cornelia Mary Vanderbilt, 49, expatriate great-granddaughter of the late "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt (in 1925 she inherited some $40 million from her father, George Washington Vanderbilt) ; and Vivian Francis Bulkeley-Johnson, 58, bank secretary; both for the second time; in London...