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James Forrestal, the first Secretary of Defense, heard of the flying lawyer's reputation for courage and intelligence and recruited Halaby as his foreign affairs adviser. Halaby rose to become Deputy Assistant Secretary. After leaving Washington in the mid-1950s, he job-hopped, serving briefly as operating vice president of...
As serious as the Enterprise fire was, it could well have been far worse. The Navy had learned from tragic experience to be prepared for such a crisis. In 1966, a fire aboard U.S.S. Oriskany claimed the lives of 43 men, and the 1967 Forrestal blaze killed 134. As a...
Admiral and Mrs. Outlaw very kindly invited me to be their house guest on my way from Athens to Malta to join my husband, Captain Baldwin, skipper of U.S.S. Forrestal. Our reunions in both port cities were slightly marred during the wee hours of the morning as the captain awoke...
As the 78, 000-ton aircraft carrier U.S.S. Forrestal slid out of the Greek port of Salonica one grey dawn last week, a 900-ton escort ship waited for her just outside the harbor. The Forrestal turned southward into the Aegean Sea, and the escort dutifully took up station a...
Facts Askew. Once the Pearson-Anderson book is read by Congress, Pearson will no doubt be called the name regularly applied to him in the course of his career: liar. Often enough, he and Anderson get their facts askew through careless checking or the fear of losing a story. Pearson...