Word: naval
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What stands in the path between Harvard and its first win is the loss of three defensemen for at least one game. Charlie Kittredge, who was impressive in a 21-4 shellacking at the hands of the Naval Academy, will miss today's action with a bruised thigh and what Coach Bruce Munro diagnosed yesterday as a separated shoulder...
...bring out the worst in any actor. Rattigan's script-an adaptation of his play A Bequest to the Nation-is a damp recounting of the infamous romance between Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton, a liaison that scandalized Georgian London and threatened, for a time, Britain's naval might...
...next day, at Annapolis, the Naval Academy carried its 27-game win streak over Harvard into its annual tilt with the Crimson and wasn't about to see the skein end, not even for charity. The Midshipmen rained 79 shots on netminders Bob Coplan and Brian Everist and coasted to a 17-1 halftime advantage and 21-4 win on attackman Nick Smilari's six goals--all in the first half--and a second quarter bombing of 11 unanswered points...
...former Navy captain who has demonstrated a career-long obsession with loyalty to his superiors?as a submarine officer, a Pentagon naval aide and in second-level posts in the Nixon Administration?Gray was selected by Nixon as acting director because of, above all else, that subservience. And it is his devotion to Nixon that has created the nomination controversy and has thrust the President and the Senate toward another classic collision over their respective powers. Nixon may well be forced to abandon the nomination, or he may persuade Gray to withdraw?something that anyone who respects the chain...
Except for those two command posts, Gray spent most of his 20-year naval career in highly responsible positions as an aide to a higher officer. While an adviser on tactics and training for the Atlantic submarine fleet, he wrote speeches for the admiral of the fleet. At his retirement in 1960 he was assistant to Air Force General Nathan Twining, then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Admiral Arleigh Burke, then Chief of Naval Operations, tried to talk Gray into remaining in the Navy, but, Burke recalls, "he was all steamed up about helping Nixon...