Word: naval
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...depths down to 1,000 ft. There are "sea-mounts"-underwater slopes-charted along her great-circle route homeward that lie only 900 ft. below the surface. Retired Navy Captain Charles N. G. Hendrix, an old "pigboat" skipper who is now a professor of oceanography at the U.S. Naval Academy, likens such subsurface navigation to the plight of "a pilot flying over the Rocky Mountains without knowing how high the highest peaks are, where they are, or even if they exist. The great-circle track in the vicinity of the Azores has never been systematically surveyed in detail...
Hendrix, who by ironic coincidence published an article in the current issue of U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings titled "The Depths of Ignorance," dealing with the hypothetical stranding of a nuclear sub on a seamount in mid-Pacific, argues that the Navy not only has insufficient bathymetric data on bottoms in all oceans but lacks adequate communication and rescue devices for subs in distress as well. Scorpion, like more than 70 of her sisters in the U.S. nuclear-sub fleet, carried only two buoys mounted on cables fore and aft to mark her position in the event of disaster, plus...
...time, Marines learned to look up to Krulak, whose persnickety preciseness had won him the mocking sobriquet of "The Brute" from Naval Academy classmates. Marines found the nickname appropriate. Merciless with incompetents, Krulak attracted feral loyalty as well as hatred. Early in his career he showed that there was nothing undersized about his brain. A specialist in the "dirty tricks" of unconventional warfare, he used hell-raising tactics on Choiseul Island during World War II to such advantage that the Japanese believed Krulak's Marine paratrooper battalion was a full division. At 43, he became the corps' youngest...
...despite the area's Republican preponderance. He convicted the state public-welfare director for neglect of duty after a typhoid epidemic killed more than 50 inmates at a state mental hos pital. Shapiro has been an impassioned crusader for mental health ever since. After antisubmarine duty as a naval officer in World War II, he served seven terms in the legislature before being picked to run with Kerner...
Randell's fast-growing wealth, which he offhandedly understates, comes from stockholdings. His company promotes or sells diverse goods and services: mouthwash and antacid pills, magazines and record-club memberships, vacation cruises. It even does naval recruiting in a fickle market of 10,500,000 college and high school students in the U.S. and Canada. Since April 24, when the company brought out a public issue of its common stock, the price of its shares has jumped from $6 to $26.50 on the over-the-counter market. Accordingly, the value of Randell's 54% holding has swelled from...