Word: naval
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Alcoa Premiere (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). The first of what may be spun off as a separate series on C. S. Forester's British naval hero Horatio Hornblower, filmed in England...
...graduate "ring knocker" of the class of 1959, U.S. Naval Academy, I must say that I agree with Mr. Boroff in his criticism of the methods and curriculum at the Naval Academy [Feb. 8]. After almost four years with the Pacific Fleet, I have become acquainted with many officers of civilian-college backgrounds. In this time, it has become evident that the course of instruction at the Naval Academy is lacking in the breadth of its horizon and the depth of its technical preparation...
...immense technological explosion of recent years has had a tremendous impact on the military, both in hardware and thinking. An even greater strain has been imposed on those responsible for providing the fleet with officers equipped to handle all of the ramifications of the space age. The Naval Academy is desperately seeking to alter its teaching methods and curriculum to meet the challenge. Unfortunately, it has not been able to bring itself to break completely with the traditions of the past, when all it had to do was produce a semiliterate officer well versed in gunnery, seamanship, steam propulsion...
...statute of the British naval regulations of 1797 prescribed that no officer of Her Majesty's armada could wear a beard. It is a shock, indeed, to view Peter Ustinov with a clean-shaven countenance. Yet Mr. Ustinov's eventual victory in his battle against eighteenth century decorum must indicate the decline of Britain and her navy; the multi-talented Ustinov--producer, director, co-writer, and star of Billy Budd--completely dominates this ambitious production of Melville's novel...
...enough cases to convict it as the chief culprit in North Carolina's heavy outbreak of flu in January. The virus apparently spread to adjacent Virginia and South Carolina, and the University of Georgia had a local incident. Farther west, there were confirmed outbreaks at Great Lakes Naval Training Center in Illinois, at the University of Michigan, and in Kansas...