Word: naval
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...jumped the gun on the Pentagon's civilian boss, appointed a study committee to reorganize the Navy's business side. Although some admirals, as Korth describes it, "screamed like a gut-shot panther," that reorganization went into effect last week. It coordinated four traditionally autonomous bureaus: Ships, Naval Weapons, Yards and Docks, Supplies and Accounts...
Korth also is trying to broaden and upgrade education at the Naval Academy, wants Annapolis to have a civilian dean, require all its instructors to hold master's degrees. Korth sides with McNamara on the Defense Secretary's decision to award the TFX fighter aircraft contract to General Dynamics, even though Navy experts preferred a Boeing design. He helped seal the dismissal of Chief of Naval Operations George Anderson by not recommending Anderson's reappointment...
...Korth's big test will come as the Navy tries to answer McNamara's insistent questions about why it needs more carriers (TIME, March 29), why a carrier needs such a huge protective force, why the Navy wants its carriers to be nuclear-powered. Declares one top naval officer: "Before World War II, the Navy really was the senior service. If we didn't want to answer a question then, we didn't do it. That's the spirit we need in the Navy today. If they cut back on our shipbuilding program...
Massachusetts Democratic Senator Teddy Kennedy thought he had a fine idea. Why not move the U.S.S. Constitution-"Old Ironsides"-from its berth at Boston Naval Shipyard's Pier 1 to New York next summer so that millions visiting the World's Fair could see the famed frigate...
Sweden for Swedes. The Wallenberg who started it all was André, who visited the U.S. and Scotland as a young naval lieutenant, became fascinated by banking and founded Stockholm's first commercial bank in 1856. His Enskilda Bank became the chief funnel through which foreign capital entered Sweden, and André and the succeeding Wallenbergs directed the flow of foreign funds to finance Swedish industrialization...