Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Formosa newspapers have recently played up the decision of Admiral Robert Carney, U.S. Chief of Naval Operations, not to transfer landing craft "at this time" to Free China's navy, and his statement that he is checking U.S. Pacific naval operations "to see where we can cut back." They also singled out a remark by Secretary of State Dulles that the U.S. is not forever opposed to the recognition of Red China, if it gives up its aggressive ways...
After their official Navy sedan conked out, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Robert B. Carney and the Pacific Fleet's commanding Admiral Felix B. Stump, on their way to a reception for Carney at Pearl Harbor, proceeded in a style to which they are unaccustomed. Hitchhiker Carney arrived in a small British sports car, Stump in a half-ton pickup truck...
Betweentimes he must face two other judges: a mother as implacable as Madame Defarge who exchanges not a word with him, feeling that his comedown has smirched his father's name (a World War I naval hero), and a sister whose eyes still sting with grief at the death of her only son on Marius' lost ship. How strong the case against Marius really is becomes clear when, in a drunk and fitful sleep, he blurts out that he murdered his nephew for siding with the first mate just before his ship went to the bottom...
...Pushkin Square, Rear Admiral Leslie C. Stevens, U.S. naval attache in Moscow, sat over a mug of strong, sweet Russian beer. Before very long he was joined by "a little black-browed man with no collar and a very dirty shirt." His companion turned out to be a typesetter on Pravda, who, after assuring himself that Stevens was not an MVD agent, whispered: "Don't worry about propaganda against your country. We Russians do not believe it. Whenever you read such things, it is a sure sign the Russian people . . . think otherwise...
...weapons research is directed by officers of the three services. These men are neither stupid nor incompetent; they simply lack the scientific background to make decisions for themselves. The services actually object to giving high rank to their scientific personnel. It nearly took an act of Congress to promote naval engineering expert Hyman Rickover from captain to admiral last year. Rickover is a specialist, and the Navy, as well as the Army and Air Force, insists that its brass be trained in the line, not the laboratory...