Word: farragut
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...promulgated" Elbert Hubbard's "A Message to Garcia" to the crew, instituted daily inspections, held a series of "all hands aft" services, where he quoted from Admiral Farragut and Stonewall Jackson. Since the Vance would be involved in Operation Market Time, the Navy's screening of Vietnamese coastal junk and sampan traffic for Viet Cong infiltrators, Arnheiter also insisted on a refresher course in small arms, ordered the purchase of a $950 speedboat from the ship's recreation fund. Though the 20-knot boat was supposedly to be used primarily for off-duty water skiing and swimming...
WORLD BOY SCOUT JAMBOREE (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). Actor Jimmy Stewart, who holds scouting's highest award of the Silver Buffalo among his many accomplishments, narrates the 12th International Jamboree at Farragut State Park, Idaho. This special focuses on six scouts, representative of the 13,000 boys from nearly 100 countries who journeyed to the camp...
...says something about the national character that Americans have always had only tempered admiration for the men of strictly military exploits. John Paul Jones and Farragut rise from the history books as authors of heroic slogans, but hardly as full-fledged heroes. Besides, there is a strong prejudice in favor of the gallant loser and the persistent defender of a lost cause. Lee and Stonewall Jackson outrank Ulysses S. Grant. World War I produced no military heroes unless it was Sergeant York, a man of peace reacting to pressure. World War II and after showed a growing sophistication in American...
...unlike many of its sister Southern states, Alabama suffered few ravages from Union troops; indeed, the most notable battle came on the water, with Farragut's damn-the-torpedoes victory in Mobile Bay. What the war did do was rip the foundations from beneath Alabama's cotton-based economy. And what the Civil War did not finish, the boll weevil...
...help them by toting gear and logging names. Because any mass health project is most efficient when the subjects are brought together and can be run through a line, the Toms River tine testers worked the public schools first; they also jabbed the forearms of cadets at Admiral Farragut Academy. But the testers had to do a house-to-house...