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...Cecil Scott Forester is the best living writer about the sea. It is a war novel (first published in LIFE) that neither whines nor rails nor waves flags, but sticks tersely to its theme. Its hero, Commander George Krause, U.S.N., is indeed a good shepherd. His flock is a convoy of 37 merchant ships zigzagging across the Atlantic in 1942. To herd them safely to harbor in England, Krause has only four escort vessels, one of which he personally commands. Almost as serious as his weakness in ships is his own inexperience; this is his first taste of war, although...
Westward out of Caracas, a speeding convoy of official limousines and patrol cars snaked down the winding, concrete Pan American Highway. From the back seat of a Cadillac limousine, a short, rotund man in khaki took in the fleeting sights: trucks piled high with sugar cane, drowsy town plazas seared to a dry-season brown, the jet air base near Maracay, and scenic Lake Valencia, a shimmering turquoise in a chartreuse valley. But most of the time Colonel Marcos Pérez Jiménez, President of Venezuela, eyed a low, sleek, two-seater Mercedes-Benz sports car that rolled...
Next morning at 8, the President, a road-racer's gleam in his eye, took the wheel again and sped away through dun-colored hills. Official chauffeurs in the convoy crossed themselves and followed. But it was ideal driving: troops patrolled the highway (particularly guarding bridges) and kept all other traffic backed up at side roads...
...estimates for the DEW line dropped to about $250 million. After the Soviet Union tested a hydrogen bomb and displayed a 600-m.p.h. long-range jet bomber last year, the U.S. and Canada decided to go ahead with DEW. Equipment too bulky to fly will move in by sea convoy during the brief shipping season...
...outskirts of Madrid, the truck drivers were changed. The new drivers were told that the cargo was high explosives. The convoy reached Cartagena, where the heavy gold-filled cases were put aboard a Russian ship...