Word: commandingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...handled by Washington Correspondent John Mulliken, who has also known Zumwalt for years. Mulliken's earlier reportage resulted in a full-page story Nov. 9−the first in any national publication−describing the Navy's new C.N.O. and how he planned to reshape his vast command. When we decided that both man and idea demanded even more thorough study, Mulliken flew to Hawaii to accompany the admiral on a brief mission, then flew home with him and his family "Zumwalt is a superb subject," reports Mulliken. "His memory is his down to the exact words...
...concern also shows up in the new dialogue that has developed among skippers, the men they command and Navy wives. Aboard the Springfield, Fleet Commander Vice Admiral Isaac Kidd holds forth in ombudsmen meetings at the same polished table where he and his senior commanders conferred in September with President Nixon. At a recent session, one wife complained that U.S. naval families based in Italy knew too little Italian. Kidd ordered a three-month trial of voluntary lessons. On another complaint, Kidd said he would order Navy doctors and dentists in Naples to visit Gaeta more regularly to treat dependents...
...Many commanders of ships and bases feel that Zumwalt is delving into personnel matters that have long been their rightful prerogative. Many Navy chiefs, the indispensable career men who run much of the service, contend that lowly swabs are getting perks that it had taken them years to earn. Besides, there is the issue of authority, the subversion of the chain of command. Grouses one commander at Norfolk: "Since these Z-grams came out, some men in the lower grades seem to feel that they are working directly for the C.N.O.and to hell with everybody in between...
...talked to Hamette Mary Crider, another ham reported a radio conversation that the King had with Mary on Thanksgiving morning. Irritated by the babble of voices on the air waves, Hussein had suddenly called out: "Will everyone please be quiet? I want to talk to Mary." Obeying the royal command, operators all over the world lapsed into silence and listened in. Recalled the ham: "It was like a party line with 100,000 people on the line...
Muhammad Ali was flabbergasted. Oscar Bonavena, the hulking, beetle-browed Argentine with only a halting command of English, was beating the Louisville Lip to the surly quip. Calling Ali a "black kangaroo" and a "maricon" (faggot), Bonavena boasted that he would knock out the deposed champion in Round 11. "Imagine that!" exclaimed Ali. "Him predictin' on me!" At their prefight physical, Oscar tweaked Ali's cheek. Ali started to lunge at Oscar. "Why you so nerbous?" said the Argentine. "You afraid Oscar and his beeg muscles?" Ali: "You're not good enough to touch me." Oscar...