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...letter about low morale in the Navy set off the armed services' row over unification, decided to retire (at 55) rather than accept a transfer from command of the First Task Fleet in the Pacific to a shore job as commander of Fleet Air at Jacksonville, Fla., a rear admiral's billet...
...tricks of realism-e.g., "blood" that coagulates as it cools-could lure the crowds back. Even worse, the sounds of skulls being crushed and bodies plopping into acid vats began drawing guffaws instead of gasps. Things got so bad that couples who took the curtained boxes in the rear of the house looked to themselves rather than to the stage for thrills. "The time had come," says Owner-Director Eva Berkson, ". . . to modernize...
From the White House last week came news that cheered the U.S. Navy: the name of Captain Arleigh ("31-Knot") Burke was on the list of 23 naval officers nominated for promotions to rear admiral...
Sidney Souers, 57, who every weekday morning at 9:30 briefs the President on the latest military and political intelligence, resigned as chief of the National Security Council, effective Jan. 15. A wartime Navy intelligence officer (and a rear admiral in the Naval Reserve), first chief of the postwar Central Intelligence system, and board chairman of a prospering linen supply company on the side, Souers stayed out of the headlines and close to the President's ear. Among his tasks: refereeing between the State Department and the defense establishment...
Only Human. In St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, as afraid as the next man of going to a dentist's office, Dentist Ptolemy Corbiere sat down and, guided by a hand-mirror, extracted his own upper rear molar...