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...Government agencies, which have worked closely with the chairman in the past, now have no key man to contact. Members, fearful that they might tip the chairmanship stalemate the wrong way, have been clam-quiet on some important issues, e.g., the Navy's failure to promote Captain Hyman G. Rickover, the atomic-submarine expert...
Last July Captain Hyman George Rickover, brilliant expediter of the atomic submarine, was passed over for promotion to rear admiral. He seemed headed for mandatory retirement at the relatively early...
...other captains until the Navy explained the Rickover case. The Administration, meanwhile, had also become concerned. This week Navy Secretary Robert Anderson announced that a specially instructed Navy selection board would choose one new rear admiral "qualified in the field of atomic propulsive machinery for ships." The obvious candidate: Hyman George Rickover...
...Navy had set up an atomic project under Captain Hyman Rickover, a hard-driving officer who had been insisting since 1947 that an atomic-powered submarine was feasible (TIME, Sept. 3, 1951). So Westinghouse and Captain Rickover got together and in 1948, signed the contract for the reactor...
...HYMAN H. HAVES...