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Government: Tapped by President Eisenhower as Under Secretary of the Navy in 1953, Republican Gates was promoted to Secretary when Charles Thomas resigned in 1957. Known as a black-shoe, sea-blue navyman at home either behind a desk or on a deck, he helped guide the Navy through its heady revolution from guns to guided missiles, from props to jets, from steam to atom power. Businessman Gates also brought into the Navy the best electronic bookkeeping system of all the services, bucked the admirals to inaugurate a program under which talented but untrained enlisted men now take science courses...
...this same vein, Morison has just finished a biography of John Paul Jones. Entitled John Paul Jones: a Sailor's Biography, the publisher's proofs sit on the professor's desk awaiting final touches. The volume will be a Book of the Month Club selection, although the professor does not yet know when it will be published. Currently Morison is actively engaged in writing a single-volume history of the United States entitled The Oxford History of the American People...
...crammed into Proxmire's office to watch a high-speed floor-waxing machine tow the two Senators around the room like water skiers. It all proved, claimed Proxmire breathlessly, that the floors were really nonslip (although his receptionist takes no chances, keeps a pair of sneakers in her desk drawer...
...Force General Nathan Twining, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was hospitalized for quick surgery for lung cancer; doctor's prognosis: he will be away from his desk for a minimum of five or six weeks (acting chairman: General Maxwell Taylor, Army Chief of Staff...
...lurid cinemythology of the '30s, Capone was glorified by Paul Muni (Scarface), Edward G. Robinson (Little Caesar) and James Cagney (Public Enemy) as a snap-brim Satan. In the sober retrospect of the '503, he is reduced by Rod Steiger to a mere whitecollar, clean-desk psychopath-a sort of organization maniac...