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Peace & Humor. The waging of a crusade was the preponderant theme for President Eisenhower as he swept through a busy week that enabled him to make the kind of personal contact that he likes. He whirred by helicopter up to the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis. There Commencement Speaker Eisenhower paid tribute to 899 graduates whose "loyalty to country-a perceptive, abiding loyalty-has become a guiding force in your lives." No longer, said Ike, may an officer of the military service be content to be a skilled technician capable of fighting...
First Enemies. The contributions of Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss, 62, courtly Virginian, onetime shoe salesman, onetime investment banker (Kuhn, Loeb & Co.), onetime Navy rear admiral (ordnance, naval research, atomic energy), were as basic as President Eisenhower said they were. In 1947, as a Truman-appointed AECommissioner, Lewis Strauss (rhymes with laws) pushed through the nuclear-detection system that in September 1949 spotted the first Communist atomic blast, put the free world on guard. In October 1949, against the objection of all four of his fellow AECommissioners and all eight of Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer's General Advisory Committee, he recommended...
President Eisenhower, in his commencement address at the United States Naval Academy last week, noted that fifty percent of the United States' diplomatic service has little or no ability in tongues other than English. Here is another result of America's deemphasis of the so-called "impractical" aspects of education; such an apparent lack of interest in foreign countries cannot help but give an unfavorable impression to the rest of the world. At a time when the United States needs friendly allies more than ever before, such an educational lacuna may assume considerable importance...
...Thames River to the New London (Conn.) naval base last week purred the black nuclear submarines Seawolf and Skate, home from record-breaking underwater trips. Seawolf, with 100 men aboard, had covered 10,200 miles submerged, stayed below one long stretch of 30 days, 5 minutes. Skate, with 95 men aboard, had gone 8,727 miles under water, beat Seawolf in an informal competition by staying down 31 days, 5 hours, 30 minutes. Throughout, Seawolf and Skate performed their secret missions in such a routine way that they won a "well done" from Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh Burke. Said...
...years between, he had won the Legion of Merit commanding the light carrier Chenango off Okinawa (1945), worked up through the postwar Pentagon and carrier commands to boss the Mediterranean Sixth Fleet (1956), pinned on his fourth star as Admiral Arleigh Burke's Vice Chief of Naval Operations (1956-58). Last week he was named Commander in Chief, Pacific, with 500,000 men, 400 ships, 2,500 planes, to do the job of deploying U.S. power and backstopping U.S. diplomacy from Alaska to the Indian Ocean. And Flyer Don Felt's legacy, left him by retiring four-star...