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Navy Captain Richard G. Alexander, 45, was one of the most promising young four-stripers in the fleet. Last year the Navy Department rewarded that promise by giving him command of the U.S.S. New Jersey, which will become the world's only operational battleship when it is recommissioned this April. Last week the Navy Department revealed that Alexander had exercised the most ignominious prerogative open to a blue-water sailor: he formally requested that he be relieved of his command of the New Jersey. The request was promptly granted, and he was given shore duty...
With so many high-riding executives, Poland is considering retiring 10% of its motorized fleet and chauffeurs. Bulgaria has decreed strict restrictions on who can use official cars. In Rumania, where Romînia Libera reports that an "astronomical" amount is spent on chauffeured cars, the government has ordered their use limited to top-echelon people. Rumania is also launching a drive to find "useful work" for the displaced chauffeurs and, along with Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia, is trying to sell the cars to the bosses to console them for the loss of their drivers. As a result, many a party...
...doctor the ailing U.S. merchant marine, the Government has often proved as ineffectual as the barnacle-crusted maritime industry itself. Transportation Secretary Alan Boyd not long ago virtually threw up his hands over the prospect of winning general agreement on a plan to renovate the aging U.S. flag fleet, whose dwindling capacity has been strained by the pressure of supplying the Viet Nam war. After months of contentious hearings, the Federal Maritime Commission, however, has just approved a stride toward greater efficiency. By a 3-to-2 vote, the commission authorized the merger of three West Coast companies into...
...about itself and did not even give its correspondents bylines. Last week the new Times showed once again how much it has changed by running a four-page spread in the Sunday Times magazine boasting of its achievements in the year since it was bought by Lord Thomson of Fleet. Complete with drawings of Thomson, his editor and the paper's heroes, the article told how the "most dignified newspaper in the world hustled its way to being the most talked about sheet on the street in twelve constructive and destructive months...
...immense. Its assets of $13.8 billion are greater than the U.S. Government's gold supply. The employees working for it and its affiliates-150,000 people-are equal to the working population of Vermont. Its 750,000 shareholders outnumber the population of Hawaii. Jersey's tanker fleet, including 126 ships sailing under 14 flags, with 19 new supertankers abuilding of mostly 240,000 tons apiece, is bigger than the Greek navy. Jersey's 65,000 service stations, bearing such names as Esso, Enco and Humble (the New Jersey company's exclusive right to the Esso name...