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Swift Orders. About 4,000 miles away, near Wake Island, a U.S. Navy C-118 staff plane droned toward Honolulu. Aboard was Admiral Ulysses S. Grant Sharp Jr., commander in chief of the U.S. forces in the Pacific (CINCPAC). "Oley" Sharp was returning to his headquarters near Pearl Harbor after touring the U.S. military missions in South Viet Nam and Thailand -the everlasting hot spots of his vast command (see box). It was over the C-118 radiotelephone that the word of the fight in Tonkin Gulf was relayed to Sharp...
...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...
...Died. Oley Speaks, 74, shy bachelor composer and longtime A.S.C.A.P. director (1924-43), whose 250 songs and ballads included music for such oldtime favorites as Sylvia (his own favorite) and On the Road to Mandalay (he had never been there); after long illness; in Manhattan...