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Carter's Choice for CIA --- Student of World FB8E 1977 Saronicle Carter's Choice for CIA --- Washington examinations in strategy, tactics, analysis and management. As president of the Naval War College from 1972 to 1974, Admiral Carter on Stansfield Turner kept a sign on his These practices and his own door that read: "I need one good TV Today penchant for a heavy intellectual idea a day." diet did not endear Turner to all of his peers. It was characteristic of a man President Carter's first tele- whom his associates and friends vised news conference since his describe as endlessly curious about inauguration will be shown today at However, he won respect at philosophy, theater, opera, interna- 11:30 a.m. on the three major Newport for innovations, such as a tional politics and military affairs. networks. series of humanities lectures by outsiders, including his friend, Her- Stan Turner, whom President The press conference will be man Wouk, the author of the Caine Carter designated yesterday as his carried live on Channel 4 (KRON), Channel 5 (KPIX) and Channel 7 Mutiny. An evening at the Turner choice to head the Central Intellig- household, a colleague recalled, ence Agency and to function as his (KGO). It will be repeated at 11:30 p.m. on Channel 9 (KQED). was likely to include a politician or director of Central Intelligence, a historian. was an all-round student of the world around him as early as his high school days in Highland Park, One of his guests at a college Ill. they could do" about a putative seminar was the Georgia governor, man overboard on instant notice. Jimmy Carter, who was his class- He was also near the top of his mate at the Naval Academy in the class wherever he studied. An associate from his days at accelerated class of 1947, which the Newport, R.I., war college finished a year early. ' There is one side to Turner described this as a continuation of which a naval associate described the "shakeup politics" he had insti- as "breezy and informal," and tuted on his arrival there. His first Turner had come to the Navy another which he said made one day there he told the students to by way of the Naval Reserve at "not mistake for one minute that he "feel right at home" and show their Amherst College, which he attend- is an admiral." families around the campus. After ed from 1941 to 1943. He finished When he commanded the Sec- this lulling start, he said: "Report 25th in a class of 820, served on a ond Fleet in 1974 in the Atlantic, he back to the first class in one hour." carrier and a cruiser, and then won was accustomed to make surprise a Rhodes Scholarship. At Oxford he visits to his ships by helicopter. The shakeup proceeded with studied philosophy, politics and Before landing, he would toss a life his demand that the college serve economics, receiving a masters de- preserver into the ocean and then not as "a year off" from naval duty, gree in arts in 1950. demand that the crew "show what but a program involving tough He was on destroyers during the Korean War, during which he earned a Bronze Star medal and other medals. He also commanded a guided-missile frigate in the Viet- nam conflict. His shore duty included two tours in defense systems analysis at the Pentagon. He was appointed commander-in-chief of Allied Forces, Southern Europe, in Au- gust, 1975. He was born Dec. 1, 1923, in Highland Park, a prosperous sub- urb of Chicago on the shore of Lake Michigan, the son of Oliver Stans- field and Wilhelmina Josephine Turner. His father was a real estate broker. Student of World He was elected class president "corny puns" in the yearbook, a in his sophomore year of high habit he appears to have retained. school and was a football letterman. He married the former Patricia Mary Mikkelson, who went to Busy Whitney in 1953. Their son, school with him, recalls him as Geoffrey, is a Navy lieutenant "nice to everybody" and "into stationed in Maryland, and their everything." daughter Laurel is married. The Turners recently became grandpar- At Annapolis, he also made the ents. football team despite his relatively short stature, and played left guard. Turner does not smoke, drinks He continues to enjoy sports - rarely and works long days, his playing tennis and squash and associates report. swimming when he has a chance. His classmates remembered his Neu, York Times .
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