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...Admiral Robert Bostwick ("Mick") Carney, 60, who retired last month as Chief of Naval Operations, was elected a director of Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corp. to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Admiral J. H. Towers (TIME...
...surprise came when President Eisenhower named Rear Admiral Arleigh Albert Burke (see box) as Chief of Naval Operations to succeed Admiral Robert Bostwick Carney, 60, who will retire Aug. 16. Burke, 53, will be the second youngest C.N.O. (Forrest Sherman was nine months younger) in U.S. history. He is outranked (until he gets his four stars) by seven full admirals, 21 vice admirals and 64 rear admirals...
...topflight U.S. military analyst, the New York Times's Hanson W. Baldwin usually gets a cordial welcome at the Pentagon. But last week he got a rude surprise. When he tried to make appointments for talks with General Matthew Ridgway, Admiral Robert B. Carney, Lieut. General James Gavin and other high brass, he was turned down cold. Other Pentagon newsmen had similar experiences. An Army, Navy, Air Force Journal staffer asked for obituary material on a Marine brigadier general, did not get it until the handout was marked "reviewed and cleared" by a Navy captain...
Last week, again in Satevepost, Skipper Eugene P. Wilkinson of the atomic submarine Nautilus had an article about the sub's first tests containing material that had not been printed before. But what finally brought on the Pentagon's new "gag rule" was Admiral Carney's "background remarks" to a group of Washington correspondents in which he discussed Chinese Communist intentions toward Matsu and Quemoy (TIME, April...
...there will not, because I don't know. But I do say that if anyone is predicting that it will be that soon, and can give me logical reasons for believing that it will be that soon, they have information that I do not have." Then would Admiral Carney be reprimanded for his remarks? Said the Commander in Chief...