Word: elmo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week by Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird, charged that there was a definite pattern of discrimination against blacks in the meting out of punishment. The report gave substance to black sailors' claims that recent riots have been fueled by discrimination; it also lent credence to recent statements by Elmo Zumwalt, chief of naval operations, who has attributed such insurrections to the fact that the Navy's "middle management" has not carried out his myriad programs to ease racial tension, rather than to any lack of discipline that could be traced to his reforms of traditional Navy regulations...
...Chief of Naval Operations Elmo R. Zumwalt. When he was appointed to his four-year post in 1970, it was over the heads of 34 senior officers. At 49, he also became the youngest man to hold the highest military job in the navy...
...years ago Chief of Naval Operations Elmo Zumwalt set about changing what he called the "lily-white racist Navy" into an even-handed institution that would be able to attract recruits and keep and promote blacks within its ranks. Of all his innovative ideas, the attempt to fully integrate the Navy seemed to many to be the most courageous and substantial...
When Admiral Elmo Zumwalt announced two weeks ago that the largest barnacle yet was going to fall from his Navy, modest cheers greeted the news. But the cheers may have been premature. Anticipating the eventual adoption of the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution, the Chief of Naval Operations decreed that women personnel will follow beards as an innovation aboard U.S. ships. Since federal law now forbids the presence of women aboard all but hospital ships and transports, Zumwalt chose as his pilot project the hospital ship Sanctuary, currently in drydock; 26 Navy women are slated to join the ship...
...finished product, which took four months to write, was then marketed according to library sources. When publishers listed in Literary Marketplace failed to respond, Mrs. Durham consulted a directory of agents and got results from New York's Ann Elmo (chosen because the author loves Augusta Evans' venerable tearjerker, St. Elmo). Now that heady success has crowned all these efforts, Mrs. Durham can be found in the periodical room studying her competition in Publishers Weekly and Variety...