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Jimmy Thach lived airplanes. He was an ace test pilot, flew patrol duty in the Aleutians in Martin PBM-15 ("The bearskin flying suits stank like hell"), catapulted off a turret top of the cruiser U.S.S. Cincinnati in SOC-15, patrolled the Canal Zone in PBYs. Stationed in San Diego in the 19305, Thach met and married Madalyn Jones (they have two sons, John Jr., an experimental psychologist, and William Leland, about to enter William and Mary), became gunnery officer of Fighting Squadron 3. He set up mock dogfights, gave new pilots the advantage of altitude and invited them...
...reactors and a crew of 148, can make a zippy 30 surface knots. By comparison the Nautilus, first U.S. nuclear sub, displaces 2,980 tons, is 300 ft. long, has a 28-ft. beam, one reactor. The Triton, in fact, is not much smaller and slower than a light cruiser of the U.S.'s San Diego class...
...incorporated himself in Liechtenstein as "Internationale Merkur Radio Anstalt," bought an ancient, 100-ton freighter and fixed her up with Panamanian registry, a 36-kw. transmitter, a towering g8-ft. antenna. He tapes programs in a suburban villa near Copenhagen, ferries them out to sea in his own cabin cruiser...
...successful superintendent of the Naval Academy, hiking academic standards, instituting a new leadership course for which he wrote half the textbook. The other half, on psychology, was written by a Johns Hopkins group. And after 30 uneventful months as commander of the Atlantic Fleet's Battleship-Cruiser Force, Holloway turned out yet another standout performance, as Chief of the Bureau of Naval Personnel from 1953-58, as the Navy came out of Korea. Once more Holloway impressed his stamp on the Navy in styled phrases, e.g., "We should get the best people we can for these jobs and make...
France dispatched a carrier, a cruiser and three destroyers to the Lebanon coast for a quick show of support to the U.S., but did not go ashore, where the Lebanese people have unhappy memories of French rule...