Word: oley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Here was a U.S. Navy ship attacked on the high seas," Oley Sharp explained later. "You can't accept any interference with our use of international waters. You must go back to the same place and say, 'Here's two of us this time, if you want to try anything.' " When he landed in Honolulu, newsmen were waiting for him. "Our ships are always going to go where they need to be," he said crisply. "If they shoot at us, we are going to shoot back...
...Oley" Sharp (the nickname came from his towheaded, Swede-like looks) was raised in Fort Benton, Mont., a tiny (pop. 1,887) landlocked town that has produced no fewer than four admirals.* His father was the nephew of President U. S. Grant, the Civil War giant, but Sharp was not the military type: he ran a general store. Young Oley, bored with the prospect of a merchant's life, wanted-and won-an appointment to the Naval Academy. He boxed, ran the 880 on an intramural track team, but produced a so-so scholastic record and in 1927 graduated...
...ladle it out in concise, organized form during high-level briefings. Both Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Maxwell Taylor and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara quickly became Sharp admirers, and last September he took over command of the Pacific Fleet. When the critical CINCPAC appointment came up earlier this year, Oley Sharp...
That came as no surprise to comrades who admire Sharp's hardheaded skill in a crisis. Says an officer long associated with the admiral: "If I had to choose a man to lead me in peace or in war-a real pro-I'd choose Oley Sharp. When the going is toughest, he's at his best...
...Sharp; his cousin Rear Admiral Louis A. Sharp Jr.; Rear Admiral George C. Towner and Admiral John Hoover. Except for Oley, all are retired...