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...surprise came when President Eisenhower named Rear Admiral Arleigh Albert Burke (see box) as Chief of Naval Operations to succeed Admiral Robert Bostwick Carney, 60, who will retire Aug. 16. Burke, 53, will be the second youngest C.N.O. (Forrest Sherman was nine months younger) in U.S. history. He is outranked (until he gets his four stars) by seven full admirals, 21 vice admirals and 64 rear admirals...
Died. Ootah, eightyish, last of the four Eskimos who accompanied Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary and Matthew Henson on their history-making trek to the North Pole in 1909; of old age; near Thule, Greenland. A sturdy, 34-year-old hunter when he served with Peary, Ootah (also known as Odaq) was called "Peary's Iron Man," remarked of the journey back from the Pole: "The Devil is asleep or having trouble with his wife, or we should never have come back so easily...
...folly of resisting the force of an aroused native nationalism. But the hard lessons of imperialism in Asia seem to have been largely lost on France, unlike the other major European colonial powers. Recent events in South Viet Nam indicate that the French are still fighting a vigorous rear guard action to save the last vestiges of their colonial power in the Far East...
Front. In San Francisco, gambling-joint proprietors asked raiding police to pull their patrol wagons to the sides and rear of the building because their appearance out front would "give the place a bad name...
...measure of the artists' accuracy appears in University Hall's ivy which follows the pattern of the living vine. At the rear of the Hall, the Yard's lone pine tree stands among the familiar elms, oaks and maples. Both the positions and the species of the model's 2,500 trees were mapped by student workers...