To have the President of the U.S. as a captive audience at a time of interservice wrangling over defense funds is the kind of dream that military stuff is made of. Last week the U.S. Navy made the most of every split second of its dream-come-true. At the instant that Dwight Eisenhower was piped over the side of the supercarrier Saratoga at the new carrier base in Mayport, Fla., two F4-D Skyray interceptors were shot off the forward steam catapults at 141 knots to prove the capability of even a dead-in-the-water carrier....
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