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...Rajputana in central India lies the high rock of Chitor. "The swell of its sides," wrote Rudyard Kipling, "follows the form of a ship-from bow to stern more than three miles long and from three to five hundred feet high." Four centuries ago, in the land battleship of Chitor, the Rajputs held out against the invading Moguls. The Rajputs wore armor and fought with spears; the Moguls used cannon. In the last decisive engagement, a lucky Mogul shot killed the Rajput chieftain Jaimal, and the garrison, losing hope, performed the dreaded rite of jauhar...
Died. Rear Admiral William Reynolds Purnell, U.S.N. (ret.), 68, veteran Navy cruiser and battleship skipper between world wars, member (with Physicist Vannevar Bush, Harvard President James B. Conant, Army Lieut. General Wilhelm D. Styer) of the nation's top policy panel on military use of atomic weapons during the three wartime years before Hiroshima; of pneumonia; in Palo Alto, Calif...
Pride's early promise was such that he was among the handful of Reserve officers accepted in the postwar Navy. He was assigned to the battleship Arizona, in charge of a small air unit. His first planes were French Nieuports-war relics with the reliability of dime-store watches. They took off from a short runway built over the Arizona's forward gun turret; it was a good way to end up in the drink, and at least once, Pride did. There was little improvement when Pride's outfit got British Sopwith Camels. Recalls Pride: "When they...
Died. Vice Admiral Thomas L. Gatch, 63, victorious wartime skipper of the battleship South Dakota at the battles of Santa Cruz and Guadalcanal in late 1942, postwar Judge Advocate General of the Navy; of a heart ailment; in San Diego...
...sports-car boom has spawned dozens of kits. Doepke has put out a 50-part set that assembles into a realistic scale model of the MG; Ideal has a Chevrolet Corvette model kit for $4. For more ambitious builders, Revell has motorized its popular "Big Mo" battleship kit ($4.95) with a ready-assembled electric motor. William L. Gilbert Clock Corp. has an 18-piece set ($5.95) that can be made into an electric clock in a short time...