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Among those trying to find out about the story were Defense Secretary Charles Wilson, AECommissioner Lewis Strauss - and President Dwight Eisenhower. Cause of the excitement was a deliberate "leak" from the office of Rear Admiral Lewis...
...Brassbound Attempt. Veteran Pentagon newsmen recognized the story for what it was: a brassbound attempt to strike at Rear Admiral Hyman G. Rickover (TIME, Jan. 11) and his Nautilus. But a relatively inexperienced United Press reporter used the story. He quoted "a Navy spokesman," viz., Cutter, as saying: "The Nautilus is strictly a test vehicle. I doubt if she will ever fire a shot in anger...
...Confidence. The very next day another selection board met to consider more captains for promotion to flag rank. It had received pleas for Rickover's promotion to rear admiral from the Secretary of the Navy, from the chairman of the AEC and from Rickover's own superiors in the Bureau of Ships. But the board passed him over for the second time...
...preserve decorum, the board was not ordered to change its decision, but the next selection board, in spite of the "twice passed-over" rule, selected Captain Rickover to be a rear admiral...
Missing. In San Antonio, this item appeared in the Light: "$10 REWARD [for] anyone giving name and address of party that removed three-room frame house and barn in rear of 113 North Pecos Street...