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Homeward bound from Washington last week were two top Administration officials, both disappointed men. One was Navy Secretary Thomas S. (for Sovereign) Gates Jr., 52, already marked down in Navy legend as the best Secretary since the late James Forrestal. The other was James H. (for Hopkins) Smith Jr., 49...
On one occasion he flew to Brazil, found a Naval transport station sorely in need of dockage equipment. Ironically, the very equipment needed was stored only four miles away but assigned to the Rubber Development Corporation. Federal law forbade transfer to the Navy, so Cushing decided the law needed changing...
The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). A well-planned tour of the U.S.S. Forrestal, conducted by the New York Times's Military Editor Hanson Baldwin.
With its soft. length and 22-ft. wingspan, the X-15 looks more like a missile than an airplane. A sophisticated descendant of the X-1 rocket plane in which Test Pilot "Chuck" Yeager first broke the sound barrier (TIME, June 21, 1948), it is expected to reach 3,600...
Hard Way or Holloway? Having thus helped demobilize the Navy, Holloway next took on the job of rebuilding that was to give the Navy a permanent new stamp. Name of stamp: the Holloway Plan. At Navy Secretary Jim Forrestal's command, he empaneled a group of Navy officers and...