Word: naval
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...often treated the U.S. Navy -- and its rules -- with contempt. He ignored orders he did not like, wore his uniform sparingly and preferred bluntness to civility. Still, he survived in the service for more than 63 years, longer than any other officer in U.S. naval history. Adjectives -- brilliant, egotistic, rude, unorthodox -- clung to Rickover like barnacles to boats. Yet it was the diminutive (5 ft. 5 in.) Rickover who first grasped the potential of nuclear power at sea and who tugged and cajoled a reluctant Navy to develop and install reactors in submarines. Today "the silent service" fostered by Rickover...
Born to Jewish parents north of Warsaw, Rickover moved from Poland to the U.S. at age four. While working as a Western Union messenger boy in Chicago, he won an appointment to Annapolis in 1918. At the Naval Academy, he stuck to his studies, shunned sports and dating, and graduated in the top fifth of his class. After more than 20 years as an electrical engineer, the restless Rickover in 1946 was posted to Oak Ridge, Tenn., where research was under way % on atomic reactors. Rickover believed the Navy could extend its reach and free itself of the need...
...skies over Lakehurst, N.J., last week. Just three-quarters of a mile from where the hydrogen-filled dirigible Hindenburg exploded into flames in 1937, killing 36, an experimental airship known as the Heli-Stat apparently lost power, crashed and burned during a test flight at the U.S. Naval Air Engineering Center. One of the five civilian crew members was killed...
...limit another investigation. A delegation that included Meir Rosenne, the Israeli Ambassador to the U.S., met with Justice Department officials in an effort to head off the indictment of Aviam Sella, an Israeli air-force colonel. He has been implicated in the case of Jonathan Pollard, an American naval analyst who has pleaded guilty to turning over suitcases full of U.S. intelligence secrets to Israel...
What's this, a new ad campaign for Top Gun, the box-office smash about the Navy's hottest pilots? Not quite, although the confidently grinning fly-boy is indeed top gun of a sort. John Lehman, 43, is not only a Naval Reserve commander who just completed one of his two regulation training weeks a year, he is also Secretary of the Navy. But as the Reserve bomber-navigator on an A- 6 attack plane at Oceana Naval Air Station in Virginia Beach, Va., Lehman took the right-hand, nonpilot seat on training missions. He also spent time...