Word: naval
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...largely because of her influence that Jimmy became the first Carter to finish high school. While he waited to fulfill his youthful dream of entering the Naval Academy, he spent two years at Georgia colleges. Finally, he was admitted to Annapolis, graduating in 1946. He married a hometown friend, Rosalynn Smith; they have four children: three sons, now in their...
...four tense months, the U.S. Military Academy had been preparing for the invasion-in some ways the most threatening in its 174-year history. In compliance with a law passed by Congress last October, West Point, the Naval and Air Force academies will each have admitted up to 150 women cadets for the first time by this summer. Last week 20 prospective female cadets journeyed to the hills 50 miles north of New York City to spend a day and a half learning what life would be like as Fourth Classmen, or "plebes," in West Point...
President Gerald Ford, 62. After annual physical examination at Bethesda Naval Hospital, is described as having the well-being of a "conditioned athlete." After skiing, suffers occasional swelling in knees from past football injuries. Last December small wart (benign) removed from left eyelid. Has had hemorrhoidal surgery in the past...
...Frank Cox High School in Virginia Beach, Va., was an average student at the academy and dated girls frequently. Last July, after the Navy heard reports about his sexual life and began an investigation, Berg resigned and was transferred from the Sixth Fleet flagship Little Rock to Norfolk Naval Base for discharge. Meanwhile, he read of the struggle by Air Force Technical Sergeant Leonard Matlovich (TIME, June 9) to challenge the armed services' ban on homosexuals. Berg too decided to fight. He had the full support of his family, including his father, Commander Vernon Berg Jr., a Protestant chaplain...
...past seven years-plus heterosexual activity-Berg denied having sex with anyone in the armed forces, and called for a lie detector test to prove it. Berg does not advocate blanket acceptance of "blatant" homosexuals or bisexuals, but thinks he should be judged solely on his competence as a naval officer and his ability to keep his sex life separate...