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Rickover dead at 86. (Admiral Hyman G. Rickover) (obituary)
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July 12, 1986
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Rickover dead at 86
Admiral Hyman George Rickover, the "father of the U.S. nuclear navy,' died Tuesday at his home in Arlington, Va. He had been ailing from a stroke.
The U.S. Naval Academy graduate was born in Makow, Russia on the 27th day of this century. Though he saw sea duty, it was for his role in the development of nuclear power--first with the ...
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