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...other sub-Cabinet appointments, Johnson picked John A. Carver Jr., 46, as Under Secretary of the Interior. Once a Boise attorney, Carver has solid Washington experience, ran the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the National Park Service among other agencies. And to head up the 170,000-man, $6 billion-a-year Veterans Administration (third largest Government employer behind Defense and the Post Office), Johnson chose William J. Driver, 46, a VA career man who has served as deputy administrator for nearly four years. Even on this less than Olympian level of Government, Johnson was being unusually reticent about discussing...
...start of the first regular patrol of China Sea waters by a U.S. Polaris-packing, nuclear-fueled submarine, the Daniel Boone, first of seven slated to cruise off crucial Asiatic shores. Peking Radio denounced Boone's stalking as "nuclear blackmail" and "naked war provocation." Whatever the sub's duty was called, its presence would doubtless make Peking's masters more prudent in rattling their own crude atomic device...
Overall, Harvard sank an excellent 55 per cent of its shots. Rhodes Scholar center Merie McClung scored 30 points, and Keith Sedlacek had 13. Although guard Gene Dressler scored a sub-per 10, his passing and ball-hawking set up a half dosen more baskets...
...torpedo can be launched either from aircraft or surface ships. It dives to a preset depth, speeds around in large circles, using secret, supersophisticated devices to seek out an enemy sub. If it finds nothing, the Mark-46 switches to "active echo ranging," breaks its circular pattern and snakes zigzag through the water like a hunter stalking a deer. Once the enemy is located, the torpedo homes in with its sonar...
...tests off San Diego, the Mark-46, equipped with dummy instead of high-explosive warheads, sought out and struck highly maneuverable nuclear submarines with unerring accuracy. One especially determined Mark-46 survived its initial collision and proceeded to slam again and again into the target sub. To escape damage to his boat, the skipper swiftly surfaced; the Mark-46 is prevented by its programming from returning to shallow depths, where it might turn upon and destroy the ship that fired...