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Artist Boris Chaliapin began sketching his portrait of Admiral Sharp from photographs. For a background, we originally considered CINCPAC'S emblem (see cut), symbolizing as it does the command's semiglobal reach, but in the end decided instead on the ships and planes that you now see moving across the cover's horizon. Nation Writers Ron Kriss and Ed Magnuson began planning the week's lead article and the cover story with Associate Editor Jesse Birnbaum. The entire Washington bureau went into action; Military Correspondent John Mulliken interrupted his vacation to resume covering the Pentagon, while...
...experience. The languid beauty of the place makes it an incongruous setting for anything military. Otto Preminger's staged 'bombings' this week-part of a movie he is shooting here-did not shatter the peaceful illusion." Johnson was allowed to see the secret war room at CINCPAC, which he found quite different from the doomsday vault of a war room in Dr. Strangelove: "I kept looking for the button and I didn't find one. There was, however, the admiral's gold telephone. And I suppose one could make quite a mess by saying...
...Admiral Ulysses S. Grant Sharp Jr., 57, new U.S. Commander in Chief, Pacific (CINCPAC), succeeds retiring Admiral Harry Donald Felt (TIME cover, Jan. 6, 1961) as chief of the largest military command in the world, spanning 85 million square miles and including the hot war in South Viet Nam. In midshipman days, quiet-spoken Admiral Sharp was tagged with the nickname Ole and he still carries it-along with a reputation as "the old-shoe admiral." But, says one fellow officer, "he has a voluminous memory, a mind like a sponge" and, when provoked, "can really explode." His specialty: providing...
Pistol Packers. The hurried fleet and troop movements of last week were only the cocking of the pistol over threatened Laos, and the man who held the gun had plenty to back him up. He is Admiral Harry Donald Felt, U.S. Commander in Chief Pacific (CINCPAC), boss of the biggest military contingent in the world (TIME Cover, Jan. 6). At Felt's call are the 373,000 men. 1,000 aircraft and 400 ships of the First and Seventh Fleets, the Fifth and Thirteenth Air Forces, and the Army's 1st, 7th and 25th Infantry Division. Highly mobile...
...CINCPAC's forces would respond to the shots as Weller called them: ∙Seventh Fleet attack carriers (with 100 jets) under Griffin, are just a few hours off Viet...