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...hang out, Brown, 53, does not even try to protect himself from the image consequences of his esoteric passions. In fact, he sometimes seems to relish making himself an easy target and regularly walking into the propeller of his unshakable image as a double- dome space cadet. "I don't know which image you have of me," Brown tells new audiences, as if to exorcize his cartoon nicknames. "Governor Moonbeam? The Governor who drove a Plymouth? Slept on the floor...
Trained as a naval cadet, Yamamoto proudly bore the scars he got at 21, when he lost the second and third fingers on his left hand during Admiral Togo's great victory over the Russian navy at the Strait of Tsushima in 1905. Yamamoto had come to know the U.S. as a graduate student at Harvard and as naval attache in Washington. And as executive officer of Japan's naval flight school, he had learned the new religion of air power. He loved poker, bridge and shogi, the Japanese version of chess. Said one of his top aides...
...least important of his ideas was to recruit a cadet classmate named Mitsuo Fuchida, who could train all of Yamamoto's pilots and lead them into battle. Fuchida, grandson of a famous samurai, was born in 1902, a Year of the Tiger ("Tora! Tora!"), so he was 39 when summoned to his mission. An ardent admirer of Hitler, he had grown a toothbrush mustache...
McCormack, a Navy ROTC cadet, clearly supported the ROTC program, but called for a complete exploration of the issue...
...that important, and certainly wasn't binding. In a veritable wafflefest, Knowles said, "what is certain is that we shall have a very full discussion of the philosophical and the practical issues, and I hope we shall arrive at a considered consensus." Earlier, Rudenstine, who was himself a ROTC cadet, said that he hadn't made up his mind on the issue...