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...impressive evidence to the contrary. The spectator sees the inside of a SAC command post, and he briefly watches it work. He also sees the great B-52s, each one almost the size of a football field, form in vast flights and flash through the central blue like an armada of aluminum archangels. Clearly the nation's defenses are founded on something far more solid than a Rock...
...dispensation was Paleface Sam Banowit, who trekked out from Chicago, took a look at the spring, and committed $1,000,000 to the proposition that the flow of water could be enlarged sufficiently for a public bathhouse. When the drilling yielded enough thermal stuff to float the Spanish Armada, Sam had the water filtered through 20 miles of pipes and stored underground, to be eventually released into outdoor and indoor immersion and swirlpool baths...
...even dubbed the prospect of a multilateral force "la farce multilatérale." If the Polaris plan had been touted as a significant boost to the West's deterrent, the gibe might have been justified. As it was, the joke fell flat because a jointly manned, jointly financed armada may actually offer solid benefits for both the U.S. and Europe...
...statute of the British naval regulations of 1797 prescribed that no officer of Her Majesty's armada could wear a beard. It is a shock, indeed, to view Peter Ustinov with a clean-shaven countenance. Yet Mr. Ustinov's eventual victory in his battle against eighteenth century decorum must indicate the decline of Britain and her navy; the multi-talented Ustinov--producer, director, co-writer, and star of Billy Budd--completely dominates this ambitious production of Melville's novel...
Died. Garrett Mattingly, 62, professor of European history at Columbia University since 1948, a Renaissance scholar who won a special Pulitzer citation in 1960 for his bestselling historical study, The Armada, on the defeat of Spain's famously fumbled naval crusade in 1588 against Elizabethan England; of a heart attack; in Oxford, England...