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...Education. Though they may have entered the Navy with a sketchy scientific schooling, Rickover's recruits soar in his rarefied atmosphere. "I had the best math teachers in the world," gloats one sailor. "It's like getting a $20,000 education," says another. The most impressive result is a new willingness to keep studying after graduation. On the Polaris sub George Washington, for example, sailors will soon attend classes in everything from calculus to computers, recently took a Harvard extension course using kinescoped TV lectures by Historian Crane Brinton...
...Panel that called for an increase in U.S. defenses. While on the panel. Gilpatric became so impressed by Nelson Rockefeller that in the 1958 New York gubernatorial campaign he led the Democrats for Rockefeller. Last year Gilpatric was a prime contributor to the Symington report urging service integration. A sailor and tennis player. Gilpatric likes to get away weekends with his wife to a farm on Maryland's eastern shore. But there is a landing strip handy and the Pentagon and all its problems are just 20 minutes away...
...very much." For hundreds of years merchant mariners dreaded illness or injury at sea almost as much as death-and often there was only a fine line between them. The crude, workaday rule became: "If the pain is above the waist, give aspirin; if below, give a purgative." The sailor with raging fever or shattered bones was lucky if he made port alive. If he was unlucky, his body was deep-sixed...
Hands of God. A Sicilian ear-nose-throat specialist named Guido Guida (pronounced Gweeda) got the idea for CIRM in 1935 when he met a sick-looking sailor friend in his native port of Trapani. "I came down with bronchopneumonia en route from New York to Genoa," he explained. "Who cured you?" Guida asked...
...near the middle of the building. After maneuvering around several sharp corners, we arrived at the top, directly confronting Maria Kimball. She greeted us right hand fairly defiantly extended, feet firmly planted as if to counter a ship's pitch, and left hand crammed against her hip like a sailor...