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...made the nuclear submarine has some explosive reactions to the Navy. Said Vice Admiral Hyman George Rickover, 61, to the House Appropriations Committee last May (according to testimony released last week) : "The Navy would rather have aircraft carriers than any other type of ship, including the Polaris submarine. Most of the officers in authority in the Navy today are aviators or influenced by aviators." As for interservice bickering, Rickover had a neat solution: simply shoot down the Air Force and give its long-legged bombers to the Navy, its missiles to the Army. "By returning to two services," said Rickover...
...years, a sure way to make any flag officer blanch in dismay has been to suggest that Vice Admiral Hyman Rickover, father of the nuclear submarine, might become Chief of Naval Operations. He never will. But in idol-smashing testimony released last week by a House subcommittee on defense appropriations, he demonstrated what a lively tour of duty he would have...
...salty criticism of U.S. schools, Admiral Hyman G. Rickover is often dismissed by professional educators as an out-of-his-depth amateur. In fact, Rickover is a seasoned schoolmaster running one of the most efficient school systems in the U.S.: the Navy's little-known Nuclear Power Schools at New London, Conn., and Mare Island, Calif...
...local school control, "but certain judgments must be made from the viewpoint of national perspective." Last week he promised to raise academic standards by calling not only on professional educators but also on the country's best brains-including that most caustic critic of U.S. schools, Vice Admiral Hyman G. Rickover. Said dispassionate Philosopher McMurrin: "I think Admiral Rickover's impact on American education has been essentially good. His demand for greater rigor and the pursuit of excellence has had an excellent effect...
...Admiral Hyman Rickover, addressing U.S. Senate Committee on Defense Preparedness...