At first, Navy Secretary John Lehman dismissed as "little trinkets" the gifts that defense contractors had lavished on Admiral Hyman Rickover. But Lehman's later response to the largesse, including a letter of censure inserted last month in the retired admiral's record, indicated that Rickover's take was more substantial. Last week the Navy released a 32-page report listing $68,703 worth of gifts that Rickover accepted over the years, and in some cases demanded, from General Dynamics, whose Electric Boat shipyard in Connecticut was a principal Navy contractor. Included were diamond earrings and a jade pendant (combined value: $1,125), cleaning bills for the...
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