Word: naval
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Everyone suddenly seemed to be feeling reasonably pleased about Cuba-well, almost everyone. President Kennedy obviously felt himself riding high as a result of public reaction to his handling of the situation. Some dependent families, evacuated from the U.S.'s Guantanamo Naval Base while the Cuba crisis was at its crest, were now back; the Pentagon hoped to have all the dependents returned to Gitmo by Christmas. Considerable satisfaction was found in the fact that the Soviet Union apparently had shipped 42 crated jet bombers homeward from Cuba; the skipper of at least one ship obligingly opened the crates...
...command, all federal communications channels have been reduced to tributaries whose source is the White House. This centralization began early and drew the first critical fire. When, in January 1961, Kennedy edited a speech by the Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Arleigh Burke, and directed all other military brass to submit to the same treatment, the press emitted loud cries of censorship. But though the Kennedy edict certainly frustrated loose talk from the Pentagon, its effect has not been altogether negative. The din of senselessness and longstanding interservice quarrels no longer reaches the public...
Cupid's Darts. "Was it really genius?" asked the wonderful old windbag of his own remote and astounding youth. A prodigy, certainly. The son of a boozy soft-goods drummer who was pathetically proud of his descent from a long line of Southern naval officers, Upton was a boy wonder. He was still in short pants and scarcely through his freshman year at New York's City College (he entered at 13) before he had written his first novel. At his peak, his output of hack work and potboiling romances reached a sizzling 8,000 words...
When President Kennedy ordered a naval quarantine of Cuba, a U.S. fleet was on its way within hours. The U.S.S. Blandy, a destroyer, shoved off so quickly from Newport that it left behind its paymaster and his moneybags. On payday Lieut. James Eilberg, the supply officer, doled out the ship's petty-cash hoard of $9,500, then collected money as it was spent in the ship's store, post office and "gedunk" (soda shop), and parceled it back out until everyone was paid...
...politics as a supporter of F.D.R.'s New Deal and a bitter enemy of business monopoly, carrying on his Senate debates with such flowery forensics that he became known as "the most deliberative member of the world's most deliberative body"; in Maryland's Bethesda Naval Hospital...