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...fast agreement, at the liaison level, on immediate exchange of disabled prisoners (nicknamed the Little Switch) before he would discuss full-scale resumption of the truce talks (the Big Switch), which he designated as a "second order of business." The Reds acquiesced. To head his liaison group, Clark appointed Rear Admiral John C. Daniel, 53, Annapolis graduate (1924), who has made a solid reputation in the Navy both as desk man and blue-water sailor. Organizer of the Navy's first underwater demolition team, John Daniel commanded a destroyer squadron in the Pacific, won the Navy Cross. He came...
Wounded to the Rear. Next day, with socked-in weather preventing air support, the Americans pulled back from most of the hill and were launching futile counter attacks from exposed positions, while U.S. tanks worked around the ridges trying to cut off enemy reinforcements. And on the following day, the U.S. forces abandoned the hill entirely to give the air and artillery a chance. Air Force jets and Marine Corsairs swarmed over Baldy by day, B-26s at night. Still the Chinese held on. Some of the green U.S. replacements going up to the front vomited when they passed...
Last July Captain Hyman George Rickover, brilliant expediter of the atomic submarine, was passed over for promotion to rear admiral. He seemed headed for mandatory retirement at the relatively early...
Last week the Senate Armed Services Committee held up promotion of 39 other captains until the Navy explained the Rickover case. The Administration, meanwhile, had also become concerned. This week Navy Secretary Robert Anderson announced that a specially instructed Navy selection board would choose one new rear admiral "qualified in the field of atomic propulsive machinery for ships." The obvious candidate: Hyman George Rickover...
When Pearl Harbor cut the U.S. off from Malaya's natural rubber, only the Government was big enough to rear the $700 million, 51-plant synthetic industry. But getting the Government out was not so easy as getting it in. Harry Truman could not get private companies to bid anything approaching a fair value for the plants. The reason was that natural rubber had come back, was cheap (25? a lb.), and was so superior to most synthetics that 12 of the Government's remaining 29 plants were shut down...