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...needs a global family, and Pug Henry's circle of relatives, friends, lovers-and relatives of friends and lovers-expands in this book to meet the need. Pug's immediate family is Navy all the weigh: at the Battle of Midway, Victor Henry commands the cruiser Northampton, while his son Warren is a dive-bomber pilot who helps to wound one of the Japanese carriers in that decisive victory at sea. Son Byron is in submarines. Daughter Madeline is in wartime show business, but she takes up with a young officer who just happens to be working...
Because of its staunch congressional backers, the Navy has already scored a number of successes. The House Armed Services Committee last week added $2.13 billion for a new nuclear-powered carrier and $1.1 billion for a nuclear-powered cruiser. It restored $93 million for the development of a "surface-effect ship," which, like a Hovercraft, will be able to skim the water at high speeds. In addition, the committee voted...
...then strolled through Johnston Gate into Harvard Square, a rigid smile on his face, as students pushed around him, yelling their disapproval. They then tried to block the Harvard police cruiser that whipped down Mass Ave to pick up Bok and whisk him away, but were shoved aside by University policemen...
...what has Jimmy Carter done lately for his mentor? Not much. As one of his first major acts, he moved to spike the admiral's guns by slashing from the Navy's proposed budget $733.3 million -to be used to convert the nuclear-powered cruiser Long Beach into an antimissile defense ship and to begin building a nuclear strike cruiser and a fifth nuclear aircraft carrier. The President apparently agreed with other Navy brass that money for new surface ships would be better spent on less costly oil-fired craft, such as frigates. This would leave Rickover with...
...House restored $ 187 million for the second cruiser, but what Rickover wanted most of all was the fifth carrier. Although he had complained privately to Carter, he voiced no public protest. But the admiral had only begun to fight; he quickly called upon his ally of a quarter-century, Washington Democrat Scoop Jackson, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Two weeks ago, at the committee's urging, the Senate added $81.6 million to the Navy's budget for research on the carrier -enough to keep the project afloat...