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...Andrea Doria's radar picked up the outbound Stockholm (which he did not identify) on the radar screen about 17 miles off Dona's starboard bow. He and his officers watched her closing rapidly, although they did not plot her course. When the ships were three to four miles apart, said the captain, he ordered a 4° turn to port to leave more passing room (see cut). Calamai insisted that the ships were steaming thus starboard to starboard, whereas the Swedes insist that they were port to port. When Stockholm was two miles off and still closing...
...Advocate announced yesterday a contest for the design of its front door. The by-laws of the magazine require that the Bow St. door be repainted every fifteenth year; this is the 90th anniversary. The winner will become the Curator of the magazine for the next fifteen years...
...Patches of Fog." Shortly before 11 p.m. he picked up the pip of a ship on the bridge radarscope (he did not know it was Andrea Doria), about twelve miles off his port bow. Andrea Doria was at that point running a few miles south of the westbound lane of Track Charlie, an "informal" sea lane charted by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, and generally followed by the big transatlantic liners of the U.S., Britain, France and Holland, but not necessarily by the Italians and the Swedes. Eastbound Stockholm was about 19½ miles north of the eastbound lane...
...himself to paying the price-a new set of laws to replace the Fascist statutes thrown out by the court. On Segni's promise, the revered Chief Justice fired off a letter to President Giovanni Gronchi withdrawing his resignation. "It is my duty," De Nicola wrote blandly, "to bow to your will with profound devotion...
TURBINE-POWERED SHIP is whopping success so far, reports Maritime Administration. In five-day sea trials, first war-weary Liberty Ship fitted with experimental gas-turbine power plant and longer bow clipped along at 18 knots, almost double original, steam-powered speed...