Word: classed
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...unusual scene for the Navy, traditionally the nation's most class-conscious service. There was its highest officer, his bushy eyebrows knit in concentration, his head tilted to catch each word, as some 1,000 sailors at the San Diego Naval Station met with him to sound off their gripes -some general, some highly personal -about military life. Quietly and sympathetically, Admiral Elmo ("Bud") Zumwalt responded to each. Clarence Burris, a black cook whose wife had died of cancer and whose three daughters now need his presence, pleaded for a shore assignment, since his ship was about to sail...
...forces in Shanghai. There he met an attractive White Russian girl from Manchuria, Mouza Coutelais-du-Roche, who is now his wife. Trim and fit in body, Zumwalt is also a disciplined logician. He won speech and debating laurels at the Naval Academy (where he ranked 34th in his class of 615, but 275th in conduct). An eclectic thinker, he prefers reading contemporary political, sociological and technical works to military history. At the National War College in the early '60s, he studied the politics of the Kremlin. Zumwalt understands the current apathy of many youths toward the Soviet Union...
...dean's office to learn what their academic standing was. His roommate. Bill Perdue, "was boosted through a transom, found a key and located the records," Jackson reports. (It was a bad trip: Nixon discovered that he was no longer one of the top three students in his class.) In the Navy, at the Green Island airstrip in the Solomons, Nixon set himself to learning poker so that he could get into the almost nightly high-stakes games. Once he mastered the game, "I never saw him lose," one Navy buddy says. "He might win $40 or $50 every...
Saved takes place in the now familiar world of redbrick slavery, of lower-middle-class depths, of dirty diapers and dirtier sinks. The characters are like seedy relatives whom one loathes and loves-caustic embittered mom, silent spine-shattered dad, sluttish frustrated daughter. Into their midst comes Len (James Woods) the perennial innocent, scarily looking for sex at the beginning, resignedly settling in as a paying roomer...
...officials had only two ways to jolt lax parents: by applying a Michigan statute holding them civilly liable for a minor's malicious damage up to $1,500, or making their children wards of the court. Neither method worked well, partly because officials were loath to punish middle-class parents. As a result, parents tended to be tolerant about offspring misbehavior. "Their attitude was that it's kid stuff," says Chief Richardson. "Now that attitude changes when the police say 'If it happens again, you're the one in trouble because of the kid stuff...