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Young Robert Mardian stayed in California, studied political science at Santa Barbara State College, joined the Navy shortly after Pearl Harbor, and spent two years as an ensign on a sub chaser in the Aleutians. In 1949, he graduated from the University of Southern California Law School, where he compiled the highest first-year grade average in the school's history to that time...
...student, Connally caught the eye of a young Democrat making his first race for Congress. When Representative Lyndon Baines Johnson went to Washington in 1937, he took Connally with him as an administrative aide. Connally stayed in Washington until 1941, when he enlisted in the Navy as an ensign. At the end of the war, he was a lieutenant commander decorated three times as a flight officer on the carrier Essex. Connally used his mustering-out pay to open a radio station in Austin with ten other veterans-among them Congressman Jake Pickle and Judge Homer Thornberry, an L.B.J. Supreme...
Soon after, Ensign John Hughes found "one member of the Russian party trying to tie the defector to our port winch. The man had one end of the rope tied around the defector's neck and was trying to throw the other end to the Russian ship. I ordered him to stop . . . and he stopped." Hughes then went off the deck for "approximately one minute. When I returned, I found the Russians again beating the defector...
...They have four children: Elmo, 24, who resigned his naval commission when his father became C.N.O. and is now studying law at the University of North Carolina; James, 22, a Navy ensign; Ann, 16; and Mouza...
...Mediterranean basin is the most dramatic theater in a campaign to extend Soviet power and influence over much of the globe. Moving sometimes by the implied threat of force, but more often by military aid, trade and diplomacy, the Soviets have planted their ensign in most of the world's oceans and are expanding diplomatic beachheads in Asia, Africa and even the Americas. During the past five years, Soviet economic aid to non-Communist countries has doubled to $485 million a year, while military aid has increased from $350 million to about $500 million a year-even excluding...