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Last week Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, 76, head of the Navy's nuclear-propulsion department, said it was all an accident. In his preface to a 173-page book entitled How the Battleship Maine Was Destroyed, which is based on a resurvey of the evidence by two prominent Navy scientists, Rickover argues that there is no sign of the kind of "rupture or deformation which would have resulted from a contact mine." What did cause the blast? Probably, says Rickover, a spontaneous combustion of bituminous coal in the Maine's fuel hold, and then an explosion...
...shipbuilders' claims have been bitterly denounced by Admiral Hyman Rickover, the father of the nuclear Navy. His nuclear propulsion division happens to be responsible for many of the costly design changes at the Newport yard, where 16 nuclear-powered vessels are under construction. Rickover describes the claims as potentially "one of the biggest rip-offs in the history of the U.S." He charges that the builders are owned by industrial conglomerates that "don't care whether they are making ships or horse turds...
...singing he has to do. Repeatedly he does something meant to be funny, and then looks out at the audience waiting for a laugh--which fails to materialize. What a comedown after the superb Autolycus of Fred Gwynne last summer and Earle Hyman in 1958! But Sarah-Jane Gwillim and Rebecca Sand are a much better Mopsa and Dorcas than were the 1975 shepherdesses...
...Carter was picked for the nuclear submarine program by Admiral Hyman Rickover, who later assigned him to the prelaunch crew of the submarine Seawolf. "Rickover transformed my life," says Carter. "He was unbelievably hard-working and competent, and he demanded total dedication from his subordinates." Today, Carter's aides consider him just as much of a taskmaster as Rickover; the two men often meet...
...three years as New York State's special prosecutor, tough, single-minded Maurice Hyman Nadjari has been both praised and damned for his relentless crusade against official corruption. To his defenders he was upright, honest and dedicated in his pursuit of larcenous cops, politicians, judges and even fellow prosecutors. To his detractors he was unorthodox, ruthless, overzealous, tyrannical and inept. Last week, in a meeting that lasted less than three minutes, New York Governor Hugh Carey told Nadjari to clean out his desk. For Carey, who is thought to be eying a spot on trie Democratic national ticket...