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...saying, he pinned a Legion of Merit on the much-decorated chest of Navy Captain Edward Latimer Beach last week. Ned Beach, 42, had just made the kind of history that even Presidents can envy: under his command the world's largest submarine, the nuclear, 3O-knot-plus U.S.S. Triton, had completed the first underwater circumnavigation of the globe...
...Separate Peace, by John Knowles. A first novel that is exceptionally well written and, rarer still, thoroughly controlled, about a schoolboy's discovery of a knot of homicidal jealousy within himself...
...Separate Peace, by John Knowles. A first novel that is exceptionally well-written, and rarer still, thoroughly controlled, about a schoolboy's discovery of a knot of homicidal jealousy within himself...
...protagonist of The Red Badge of Courage. The books are similar in kind and (to a considerable extent) in quality: Author Crane's young soldier had to endure the discovery of fear, and Author Knowles's schoolboy must face the discovery of hatred-a bitter and homicidal knot of hatred in himself...
More conspicuous in the minds of most men assembled in the East Room were more recent events. Watching the ceremony were Marine Commandant David Shoup, who earned his Medal of Honor at Tarawa, and Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh ("31-Knot") Burke, who earned his nickname by sending his destroyer flotillas racing against the Japanese fleet at their top speed. There may well have been memories for Prime Minister Kishi, who, in bygone days, signed Japan's declaration of war against...