Word: naval
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dirty work fell to Deputy Defense Secretary Roswell Gilpatric. On Sunday afternoon he drove to the official quarters, atop Observatory Hill in northwest Washington, of the U.S. Chief of Naval Operations. There he informed Admiral George W. Anderson Jr. that he would not be reappointed when his present two-year term is up in August...
...succeed Anderson, President Kennedy named Admiral David Lamar McDonald, 56, commander of U.S. Naval Forces in Europe. A member of the Annapolis class of '28, McDonald has served as an aircraft-carrier commander (Mindoro and Coral Sea), as director of air warfare in the office of the Chief of Naval Operations and as deputy assistant chief of staff at SHAPE headquarters in Europe. In July 1961, he took over from Admiral Anderson as commander of the Mediterranean Sixth Fleet, a job that McDonald saw as that of "a kind of roving ambassador of good will." Last month...
...Boss. When McDonald takes over as Navy chief in August, President Kennedy said last week, Anderson will "continue to serve the Gov ernment in a position of high responsibility." That position will probably be a diplomatic post in the Mediterranean area, where Anderson can continue to put his naval experience to use. But whatever Anderson's new job, the shift reminded the Pentagon once again that McNamara means to be in absolute charge. Once a decision is made, McNamara said recently, "by God, I expect everyone to fall in line. You can't run a military organization with...
...Club suggested that the U.S. negotiate to get Russian troops out of Cuba and international inspectors onto the island. If the negotiations fall "the air and naval quarantine against offensive weapons should be reinstituted at once," it maintained...
...native of Pittsburgh. As an undergraduate at Harvard he majored in mathematics and received his A.B. degree summa cum laude. He sang in the glee club, worked for PBH, and lived in Eliot House. During World War II he taught marine engineering at the U.S. Naval Academy, and served as engineering officer aboard destroyers. He studied for his B.D. degree at Virginia Theological Seminary, and was ordained in the Episcopal ministry in 1949 In 1962 he received his Th.D. degree from Union Theological Seminary in New York...