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...Free Diet. The schools' function is to train the men entrusted with the power plants aboard nuclear subs and ships-about half the crew on a sub-and the training is aimed strictly at making sailors think. ("Hardware" courses come later at land-based nuclear plants.) The curriculum is a fat-free diet of pure math, physics, chemistry, electronics, engineering and health physics (to guard against radiation) that goes on for seven 50-minute periods a day, plus an average of four hours of homework done in a tiny, distraction-free cell. Teachers are on duty for help around...
...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...
...keep his rating, study harder to get ahead. This produces an odd personnel problem: a steady drain on savvy chief petty officers as they get commissions. Compared with the Navy as a whole, 30 times more Rickover sailors become officers. "You lose 20% of your people," growled one sub commander last week as he stared at a couple of CPOs hunched over books as well as black coffee. That fails to daunt "the admiral," as he is called without further identification. Says Rickover: "The main thing is that the men have been taught to think. It just shows what...
...empire, Honolulu's $25 million Capital Investment Co., Ltd., so flexible that it can quickly and easily be tailored to attract the risk capital required for specific situations. Stretching out from Capital are ten subsidiaries with tentacles reaching out all across the Pacific; some subsidiaries have subsidiaries; one sub-subsidiary in turn controls three other corporations. Through Capital, Ho controls the whole complex. "We can arrive at very fast decisions," he says. "That's the essence of our operation. We don't maintain any traditional holdings, no land that grandfather owned. Every last bit of our assets...
...Zeilman, or Brown's Jack Moreland, who is capable of a 9.8 100-yard sprint at any time. Moreland also runs the quarter mile and the low hurdles and he could win them all. In the 440, he will have stiff competition from Holzel of Dartmouth, a good sub-49 man in that event...