Word: skipper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Labor was beginning to look forward with anticipation to the Kennedy era. Said Seafarers Union Skipper Paul Hall of the tugboat strike: "The railroads got the hell kicked out of 'em. Now that the railroad brotherhoods have seen this, they got blood on their teeth. They will be a helluva lot tougher...
Braced against the roll of his little Navy supply ship T-AKL 17, Skipper Sixto Mangual stared at the soft glow of a radarscope. In the center, a ragged splash of light reflected the "sea return," the radar echo bouncing back from the vicious waves of the gale-roiled Atlantic. Beyond the sea return-twelve miles away by the scale of the scope-a smaller blob of light pinpointed the position where Texas Tower 4,* a man-made Air Force radar island, was riding the storm. Suddenly, silently, the tower echo disappeared. Beyond the sea return there was only...
...rise to admiral was rapid and steady. At sea he commanded the carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt, later bossed Naval Forces Middle East, and finally spent six months in command of the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean. In all these jobs he tightened his reputation as a demanding skipper, an arrogant, caustic perfectionist who let his subordinates know exactly what he wanted, and who got just that. Ashore, his big break came when he went to work for Rear Admiral Arleigh Burke, then chief of the Navy's Strategic Plans Division. Burke was already under way toward his present...
...national colors fluttered aloft last week on Brazil's first aircraft carrier, the 17,000-ton Minas Gerais*, her new skipper, Captain Helio Leoncio Martins, called the ship "a powerful arm for the defense of Brazil and the Americas." While he spoke, the first of 58 pilots who will fly from the carrier's canted deck were arriving at Key West, Fla., Naval Air Station for six months' training on the twelve Grumman 52F tracker planes and six Sikorsky 555 helicopters donated by the U.S. as the Minas Gerais' air group. By May, the flattop...
After two years at San Francisco State College he joined the Navy and, just before his 18th birthday, became one of the youngest men ever to skipper a U.S. Navy ship, taking over a submarine chaser. Returning to San Francisco in 1946, Salinger became within five years, at 26, night city editor of the Chronicle. By the time he quit to go to Collier's in 1955, he had made a name for himself by stories exposing prison conditions and breaking up a municipal bond racket, and by helping to solve a murder. On the side, he worked...