Word: naval
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...National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., outside Washington, Johnson's quarters were equally shipshape. On the walls of his three-bedroom suite, the same one he had occupied after his gall-bladder surgery 57 weeks earlier, hung paintings of his birthplace, boyhood home and ranch, along with framed quotations from Abraham Lincoln, Harold Macmillan and the Roman consul Paulus, all upholding the axiom-one that is not writ large in Lyndon Johnson's copybook-that a leader who wastes too much time on his critics has little time left for leadership. Across Wisconsin Avenue, the lights were...
What the doctors did for Lyndon Baines Johnson in Bethesda Naval Hospital last week was essentially what they would have done for any patient who happened to have the same complaints. But because Johnson is President of the U.S., there was a sort of fail-safe setup -twice the average number of physicians and surgeons...
Admiral David McDonald, chief of naval operations, recently returned from Viet Nam, translated this argument into flesh-and-blood terms last week. "The bombing," he reported, "is substantially slowing down the infiltration of men and supplies into South Viet Nam, and the slowdown has saved an awful lot of lives of Marines and Army soldiers on the ground." The price of another long pause would thus be prohibitively high unless the other side responds in kind. From Hanoi to date there has been only silence on this score...
Died. Eddie Erdelatz, 53, Naval Academy football coach from 1950 to 1959, who took over the Middies when they were about to abandon ship (four wins in five years), produced a stunning 14-2 upset over undefeated Army, went on to post an impressive nine-year record of 50 wins, 26 losses, 8 ties before quitting after protesting the academy's strict limits on practice time, scholarships and ticket allotments; of cancer; in Burlingame, Calif...
...Vatican Roulette." After World War II broke out, Pike got a commission in Naval Intelligence but stayed in Washington. War, that great upsetter of human routine, started him thinking again about what he calls "the big question," and he began occasionally going back to church. One Easter Sunday, at Washington's National Cathedral, Pike was overwhelmed by the beauty of the liturgy and its music, and pondered becoming an Episcopalian-mostly because "it looked like a church ought to look," and had "an intellectual sophistication and breadth." In 1944, the Pikes were remarried in church-"with our first daughter...