Word: hyman
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...have permitted considerable abuse," says Admiral Hyman Rickover, 82, who was forced into retirement last month by the Reagan Administration. The crusty father of the nuclear Navy, who during his 63-year career engaged in many heated disputes with contractors, charges that "the Justice Department has demonstrated a total inability to deal effectively with false claims prepared by sophisticated lawyers." In typically irascible testimony before Congress's Joint Economic Committee, Rickover attacked the Defense Department: "They will always protect private industry because that's where they came from and that's where they're going back...
...Larry Hyman New York City...
...some of the old salts gathered last week in Groton, Conn., to witness the commissioning of the U.S.S. Ohio, the U.S.'s first Trident nuclear-powered submarine, the occasion was tinged with sadness. Standing before them was the frail but still forceful Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, the man most responsible for the Navy's nuclear fleet. Only days before, Secretary of the Navy John Lehman, 39, had recommended that Rickover, 81, now Deputy Commander of the Navy's Sea Systems Command, retire after 59 years of active duty...
...builder, some Navy hands are skeptical about getting the Ohio before 1982. Says Republican Congressman David Emery of Maine, an engineer and member of the Armed Services Committee: "The Navy suspects that Electric Boat's information is not quite accurate. Neither side trusts the other." Admiral Hyman Rickover, 81, irascible founder of the nuclear Navy, is especially mistrustful. "They don't care if they manufacture horse turds or ships," Rickover snarled at a May hearing of a House subcommittee on defense. "I wouldn't give those so-and-sos any more contracts until the problems are resolved...
...When Hyman Horwitz left a Boston basketball game one night in 1970, he found only a parking space where his shiny 1969 Buick Electra had been. Horwitz was so upset, that in mourning his becoming Electra, he could not bring him self to buy a replacement. A year later, he died without a car in the world...