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...command of the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean. In all these jobs he tightened his reputation as a demanding skipper, an arrogant, caustic perfectionist who let his subordinates know exactly what he wanted, and who got just that. Ashore, his big break came when he went to work for Rear Admiral Arleigh Burke, then chief of the Navy's Strategic Plans Division. Burke was already under way toward his present job as Chief of Naval Operations, and he towed Felt with him toward...
...proper equipment and know-how. Burke saw real defense potential in the total of 390 vessels (see map) and 55,000 men. Only landlocked Bolivia has no navy; backward Paraguay, with a 1,100-mile river link its only outlet to the sea, boasts two gunboats-and two rear admirals...
...Squaresburgh, but the distance in prestige cannot be measured. The far side of the dance floor at El Morocco might as well be on the far side of the Urals. Restaurants, of course, are similarly ordered; according to bright, ubiquitous Leonard Lyons, best of the New York chroniclers, the rear room upstairs at the 21 Club is "absolute Siberia," while the best table at El Morocco is just inside the door on the right (the Duchess of Argyll, Yogi Berra...
Welland may skate two new defensemen in the tourney with the hopes of strengthening the rear guard. Bob McCoy, injured since pre-season when he was hit in the face with a puck, will probably be ready to go against R.P.I. In addition, the Crimson coach may use a junior who has played very little in organized hockey. Gene Daly played in the House league this fall and has practiced with the varsity recently. Welland lust might give Daly a shot at breaking into one of the regular defensive pairs...
...other paintings, Rivers has already become bored with subject matter. In a painting called United Nations, he uses stenciled letters, suggesting country-identifying name plates, to heighten the contrast of readymade reality and pure imagination. His Buick Painting with P is not so much a picture of the rear end of a car as a study in force...