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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aircraft carriers have figured in a long series of postwar accidents, e.g., the explosion that took 103 lives on the U.S.S. Bennington (TIME, June 7). Last week the Navy announced that it is abandoning the hydraulic catapult. A steam-powered model of British design, already tested successfully aboard the U.S.S. Hancock, will be installed on all American carriers. The steam catapult, utilizing a hooked piston riding in a slotted cylinder, is safer than the old hydraulic model because it uses no highly volatile, explosive liquids...
Flight 712, from Geneva to London, began routinely one balmy summer's night three weeks ago. Aboard the 40-passenger Swissair Convair there were only five passengers: four Englishwomen and a ten-year-old boy, returning from holidays in Switzerland. Over the English Channel. 35 minutes from flight's end, one engine gave out, then the other coughed and went dead. The plane landed on a calm sea, only a mile from shore, but it carried no lifebelts, jackets or dinghies (required only when a flight is more than 30 minutes over water). Before boats from shore could...
...Like Gray, he grew up in North Carolina, but on a different level. The son of an impoverished tobacco farmer, he worked his way through high school, enlisted in the Navy (he still bears a permanent souvenir of his Navy days: a forearm rose tattoo). One day in 1911, aboard the battleship U.S.S. Delaware, Chief Electrician Morgan helped an inventor named Elmer Sperry install a new gyroscopic compass for a test. Sperry was so impressed that he hired Morgan, who worked up through the Sperry ranks, became president in 1928, expanded the firm into a wide field (e.g., guided missiles...
With a resplendent Marshal Tito aboard, the Caleb sailed into the Greek harbor of Piraeus last week on a state visit. It was flanked by six Yugoslav and six Greek warships and heralded by a 21-gun salute and the zooming of Greek air-force planes overhead. Soon the one-time peasant agitator and soldier of Communist fortune was swapping chatty conversation with King Paul and Queen Frederika. Local Communists (Moscow variety) were clapped into jail for as long as Tito was in town...
...what was described as ''incontrollable high spirits." Bogart, 18, was unwilling to face his family. He hustled off to a recruiting ship and joined the Navy. He ended up on troopships and spent most of World War I shuttling between New York and Liverpool as a helmsman aboard the captured liner Leviathan. Meanwhile, the family money was dwindling away as the result of father's optimistic but ill-conceived instinct for investment...