Deep Thinkers
August, 1968
Two summers ago, thousands of animal lovers around the world zeroed in on the Office of Naval Operations at the Pentagon with a barrage of letters that rocked the Navy down to its bilges. The source of the public ire was a widely circulated newspaper report that the Navy was recruiting porpoises--those ever-smiling, lovable cousins of the whale--as seagoing kamikaze pilots: living, swimming bombs trained to attack enemy submarines and blow themselves to pieces in the process.According to the rep...