Word: subs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mock U-boat fights. Annapolis trained, with an outstanding submariner record in World War II and Korea (Trutta, Tang, Wahoo), Anderson was tapped for duty with Admiral Hyman Rickover's NRB (Naval Reactors Branch) in January 1956. First came an interview with the caustic godfather of the atomic sub. The Rickover Takeover was part of Navy lore, including such props as a chair with shortened front legs, designed to slide an interviewee forward in disease while a deftly flicked Venetian blind let in eye-dazzling bursts...
...fumble up the title of one book, no author. Dispiritedly, he mailed in his reading list after he got home, just so Rickover would not think him "a total stupe." The list of 24 books won Rickover's respect and helped Anderson join NRB as a potential atomic sub commander...
...Enemy Below. One of the best movies ever made about naval warfare-the story of a duel between a U.S. destroyer escort (Robert Mitchum) and a German sub (Curt Jürgens) in the South Atlantic (TIME...
...Spitsbergen-made with Carl Ben Eielson-was the first airplane : ight from North America over the top of the globe to the European area; and the trip under the edge of the Arctic icecap in 1931 was cool enough to chill spines in 1958. A converted U.S. Navy sub, Wilkins' Nautilus had portholes, searchlights, a tusklike bowsprit "feeler," and sled runners above the deck for sliding along the bellies of ice fields. Above the conning tower was a device for cutting through the ice, so that Sir Hubert could open the hatch at the Pole...
...middle class truisms with which the student left high school. With a few exceptions, of which Harvard is apparently one, the American college seems to accelerate students' assimilation into the dominant marketplace culture, rather than channeling or redirecting their growth. Students take new ideas seriously only when their college sub-culture makes the old outlook inapproprate. This means that the whole college atmosphere must be distincly "un-American," either because the scholars infiltrate undergraduate life (as in some small colleges), or because the student body is pre-selected to deviate from national norms (as at Harvard...