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Article: DEATHS IN THE NEWS
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- July 13, 1986
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Adm. Hyman G. Rickover, 86, the salty engineer who was called
the father of the nuclear Navy despite refusing to go by the book,
died Tuesday at his home in Arlington, Va. In a six-decade Navy
career, Adm. Rickover, a Russian Jewish emigre, became a top military
leader despite a style that enraged Pentagon brass and the defense
industry. Congress twice awarded him its gold medal for exceptional
public service. For 30 of his 63 years of active duty, he was
skipper of the nuclear Navy. A tiny, tidy man as demanding of
himself as he was of others, he suffered neither fools nor superiors.
He came to Chicago with his parents at age 6 and grew up here, where
his father was a tailor. He attended ...