Word: watered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Navy Department rewarded that promise by giving him command of the U.S.S. New Jersey, which will become the world's only operational battleship when it is recommissioned this April. Last week the Navy Department revealed that Alexander had exercised the most ignominious prerogative open to a blue-water sailor: he formally requested that he be relieved of his command of the New Jersey. The request was promptly granted, and he was given shore duty...
John Grey Gorton, 56, likes to say that he is "Australian to my boot heels." He is an avid sportsman (tennis, swimming, water-skiing), a cool politician with an instinct for shrewdness and enterprise, and a demanding boss with a reputation for firmness and hard work. Sworn in last week as Australia's 19th Prime Minister-succeeding the late Harold Holt, who drowned last month off Portsea (TIME, Dec. 29)-Gorton is also very much his own man. He will probably wield a stronger, more decisive leadership than Holt and bend slightly to the left in his domestic policy...
...rescue, then went through painful plastic surgery for injuries he had received when his face "got mixed up with the instrument panel." As he sailed home at last on leave, his boat was torpedoed, and he spent another day and a night on a raft, chest-deep in water, before his second rescue. Today, in his amiably crumpled face, Gorton proudly wears the scars of his ordeal...
This division was reflected at the Jerusalem conference, which was bitterly opposed by a minority of right-wing Orthodox Jews who foresaw it as an at tempt to water down Halaka. Israel's chief rabbis, who endorsed the conference, even received threatening messages-forcing the sessions to be held under police guard. While firmly denying any intention of diluting the law, conference leaders insisted on the need for further enhancing Orthodoxy's appeal to all Jewry. At the session's end, the delegates created a permanent committee to coordinate further Orthodox efforts to make tradition compatible with...
...addition to General Motors' Deep Ocean Work Boat (see opposite page), a sleek, manipulator-equipped craft that will support two men under water for 65 hours, some of the more advanced submersibles...