Word: naval
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...open: director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Late last week there were indications that it too would soon be filled. While three or four names were still being considered. White House aides let it be known that "the serious front runner" for Superspook had become President Carter's Naval Academy classmate Admiral Stansfield Turner, 53, commander of NATO's forces in Southern Europe...
Most impressive, perhaps, was Turner's 1972-74 stint as president of the Naval War College at Newport, R.I., which won him acclaim for his reforms of the curriculum. He jettisoned what he regarded as outdated and irrelevant courses in strategy and geopolitics and invited ideologically diverse civilian experts to lecture. In a 1973 address at the college, he warned that if military minds did not shape up fast, "the think tanks will be doing our thinking for us." He spurred far-ranging brainstorming seminars on how recent international developments affect U.S. strategy. One topic, for example...
...North found the going a bit like his dog-Ruff. After some guest spots, a handful of movies and a short-lived TV series (Maya), his career simply dried up. Ready for something new, North, now 25, signed up for a four-year hitch in the Navy. The Naval Reserve captain assigned to swear him in turned out to be another former child star: Jackie Cooper, 54. Said Cooper: "I think North is making a good choice. Most of us former film moppets are drunk, dead or hidden away...
...Hart) has the body of a Botticelli. She is slow at speed writing but has fast friends in high places. Some are right here in the committee chamber. As Maddie's blue scanties emerge from the M.P.s' briefcases at inauspicious moments and whip through the air like naval pennants, it is clear that whatever the Prime Minister's electoral problems may be, Maddie has carried the House...
...part of the hazing process, no matter how often or hard his rear end was pummeled. Trying to reassure one campaign audience that he did not always want to be President, Carter said, "When I was at Annapolis, the only thing I wanted to be was Chief of Naval Operations...