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...Oak Ridge. In 1946, Captain Rickover, still a sharp, square peg confronted by polished, rounded holes, learned that the Bureau of Ships had decided to send a captain and four junior officers to Oak Ridge to study nuclear energy. He got the job. (No other qualified captain applied.) Nuclear physics in those days was something to scare even brilliant officers...
Since his decision to go to Oak Ridge, Rickover's life has been a battle to get the Navy and the atom together. It was a battle of a type that has been fought before-between the necessary conservatism of a military organization and the equally urgent necessity to keep it up to date...
...Oak Ridge, Tenn., the town council formally approved a resolution to the Atomic Energy Commission. No matter what the Supreme Court does, the council wanted the AEC to abolish segregation in the Oak Ridge public schools anyway...
...court, Warren moved in with a friendly and casual air. When he takes a breather from work at the neat desk in his oak-paneled office, he often strolls through the building greeting surprised employees with a hand outstretched and a self-introduction: "I'm Earl Warren." Said one guard: "He shakes more hands in one day than many other Justices do in five years...
...leader in. But there was no explanation of what led Hodge, a World War II and Korea veteran (104 missions, three Jap planes) with 1,000 hours' time in Thunderjets, to fly into the ground. The planes were on a gentle descent when they plowed across the scrub oak and piney woods. Instrument-approach procedure called for them at that point to be at 11,000 ft. Instead, they were at 1,100-which is ground level 25 miles northeast of Atlanta...