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...last fling before adulthood closed in? The jobs Fuller held in early manhood might lead one to think so: machine fitter in a cotton mill. Navy ensign during World War I, managing exports for a meat packer and sales for a truck company. The presidency of the Stockade Building System (1922-27) sounds more like it. Fuller and his father-in-law copatented a tough, light substitute for bricks that eliminated the need for hod carriers and mortars. Holes in the blocks were lined up and cement poured in. Both the brick industry and the unions ganged up against...
...Democratic Senator Walter Mondale noted that when he held a hearing to argue against more aircraft carriers, it was a case of "myself and one college kid versus the U.S. Navy and everybody who wanted to build a carrier, or who had a friend who was an ensign or above. We foolishly handicap ourselves by failing to properly staff ourselves...
...Hamm's Beer his DKI sweatshirt, a wrinkled and somewhat threadbare plain jacket from J. Press York Street. New Haven, and one very blonde Midwestern girl--all of it went into a creaking and rather obscene '64 Thunderbird, the same one he had tried unsuccessfully to unload on this ensign from Harvard when he was in the Navy. It had become a ritual even down to the blank check he folded twice and tucked into his wallet just before heading East on interstate 90 Champagne Chuck Yale 69 was going back to New England and this time be wasn...
Much of the entertainment contributes to the mood. An early featured movie was the original version of Stagecoach, starring a youthful John Wayne. The ship's closed circuit TV system shows reruns of Ensign O'Toole and Burke's Law. In the main lounges at night, small bands play a lot of tangos and waltzes. There is a discotheque with hotter music, but its floor is often deserted...
...Army, Sophomore Staubach passed and ran circles around the heavily favored cadets to lead Navy to a stunning upset. The next year he became the fourth college player in history to win the Heisman Trophy in his junior year. A year and a half later he was commissioned an ensign and later was sent to Danang, South Viet Nam, as a supply officer...