Word: ensign
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...helmsmen were Sulu (George Takei), the Asian sword-fighter responsible for firing phasers and photon torpedos and wiping people off the face of the galaxy and Ensign Pavel Chekov (Walter Koenig), the young Russian hipnik who drank "wodka inwented by a little old lady from Leningrad" and fell in love every three episodes. Finally, chief nurse Christine Chapel (Majel Barrett Roddenberry) drooled over Spock...
When Carter and the admiral received their ensign's stripes together at the 1946 Annapolis graduation, Turner was No. 1 in the class of 820, Carter No. 59. Even without the old school tie, however. Turner would more than qualify for a top Government slot. Insists a Carter aide: "We have been looking in the last two weeks for different kinds of people, for a new face. Jimmy has high respect for Turner." This sentiment seems to be shared by the admiral's service colleagues, who admire his intellectual breadth, capacity for hard work and -what...
...Ensign Vernon Berg III, 24, is Navy all the way-son of a Navy chaplain, and a 1974 Annapolis graduate who once dated the daughter of the academy's former superintendent Vice Admiral William P. Mack. He is also an avowed bisexual fighting dismissal from the service for homosexual behavior. At his discharge hearing before a five-officer board last week in Norfolk, Admiral Mack was on hand to defend...
...unconventional at the Norfolk hearings as he had last August, when he shook up the Navy with a speech blaming U.S. failure in Viet Nam on minds closed to dissenting opinion. Mack testified that he knew Berg only during his academy days, but on that basis thinks the ensign should be kept in the Navy. Johns Hopkins Sex Specialist John W. Money, an expert witness, told the board that psychological tests showed Berg to be highly intelligent, balanced and creative. Said Money: "If the Navy can be broad-minded enough not to stigmatize him because of his avowed sexuality...
...toilet arrangements, but the construction of a few doors, partitions and separate shower rooms has relaxed the apprehensions. The services do their best to assign married women to the same posts as their uniformed husbands. When that is impossible, the couple must make a choice. For one woman Navy ensign married to an Army captain, the choice is clear. If he is transferred to a landlocked base, she will stay with the Navy in Washington. Says she: "I joined the Navy before I married him, and that is my loyalty...