Word: naval
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More for Less. Packard was then confronted by top Navy officials, including Admiral Elmo R. ("Bud") Zumwalt Jr., Chief of Naval Operations, who is an uncompromising defender of the F14. Zumwalt argued that the new fighter is essential to U.S. sea defense because 1) it is a launching platform for the Navy's air-to-air Phoenix missile, the key to future fleet protection against enemy aircraft, and 2) no other Navy plane will be a match for the Soviets' newest interceptor, the MIG-23 Foxbat. In addition, Navy men point out, advanced models...
...Coop jumped on the bandwagon by advertising "Slightly Used" Naval Uniforms for a mere $22.50. Humphrey Bogart hit town in a new flick called Casablanca. And a move to liberalize parietal hours by permitting women in the dorms until 8 p.m. instead of seven (just a few years earlier, the rule that required that a third person also be present had fallen by the wayside) was defeated by the masters...
After a year in which Julie was often in Washington while David Eisenhower went through Navy officers' training, the Nixons will face an emptier house this summer. The Eisenhowers are moving to Atlantic Beach, Fla., near David's new naval base. Eddie and Tricia will live in New York while Ed clerks in a federal attorney's office, then settle in a two-bedroom Cambridge apartment in September as Ed begins his third year of Harvard Law School; the locale, if not all of the circumstances, conjures up Erich Segal's Love Story. Except for the few months after Lynda...
...Northcote Parkinson, though known for his prankish wit, was a naval historian before he began his researches into the modern disease that may properly be called "administrationitis."* His fully fabricated account of Hornblower's career, from an impecunious "boyhood in Kent to a peaceful death at 80 in 1857-which came, appropriately, while the by then viscount was reading Gibbon-is circumstantial to a fault. The book bristles with references to "new sources" of information, as well as a full quota of those "we can fairly assumes" peculiar to Victorian biography. It comes fully provided, too, with an index...
...Parkinson's first law about the proliferation of paper-shufflers, in fact, was born when he discovered that while the number of British Navy vessels dwindled from 62 to 20 between 1914 and 1928, the number of shore-bound Admiralty officials nearly doubled during the same period. *Naval scholars may remember that Sawyer, a sadist who mistreated his crew, mysteriously fell into a hatch, doing himself permanent injury, and soon thereafter was killed by a mob of Spanish prisoners who temporarily took over the Renown. It now appears that Hornblower both pushed Sawyer down the hatch and later...