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Czar Alexander I, spreading his claims down the western coast of North America from the Bering Strait to Vancouver Is land, forbade all foreign ships to approach within "100 Italian miles" of shore on pain of confiscation. The U.S. put the world on notice that "the American continents are henceforth...
Taking risks paid dividends. Sargo's disciplined crew proved, among other things, that 1) the subs' guidance systems can be rated at pinpoint accuracy, 2) U.S. subs can travel submerged through the ice-locked Bering Straits in midwinter, 3) they can reach the top of the world from...
¶ Proving that U.S. submarines can sail at any time of year to the top of the world, within easy Polaris range of Russia, the nuclear sub Sargo slipped hundreds of miles under the fierce Arctic ice pack to the North Pole. The fourth U.S. submarine voyage to the Pole...
In the year since the legislature first met, thousands of state salaries have been increased, some by as much as 35%. But there have been no new general taxes. The state has taken over control of fisheries, courts and penal institutions, and bothersome bureaucratic bugs have been ironed out. But...
Nikita Khrushchev was thus conspicuously not at his desk on the day his Berlin ultimatum expired. But why else had he flown off to Albania? Rome's Communist L'Unitá volunteered one explanation: "The West should realize that if Khrushchev is hot, he can take a cooling...