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Shorter by 50 feet than the lean, 310-foot fleet "boats" of World War II, the new Tang-class subs looked like a cross between a whale and a shark. Gone was the familiar deck gun and the round conning tower, with its crest of periscopes, radar and radio masts. The decks of the new subs were clean and knife-narrow. Down the center reared a thick, sliced-off fin to house their twelve masts and the snorkel, which will enable them to run on engines instead of batteries at periscope depth. They had bow planes that whipped out automatically...
...believe it quite possible that history may some day record that the crest of the Communist wave of coldblooded aggression was broken against the arms and the will to fight of the United Nations battle team in Korea...
...Gets You." At ease in his Paris suite last week, Sugar Ray was riding th crest of the wave. He is surrounded by an admiring entourage of eleven, including a French midget (for the laughs), a personal golf pro, and a private barber who spends hours touching up Robinson's unscarred good looks with facials and hair-straightening treatments. Unlike many, another boxer, Robinson has invested his ring earnings in a series of profitable businesses: Sugar Ray's Café, a barbershop, a drycleaning establishment...
...major was determined to live as a Byron. He used the arms and motto of the family, impressed the Byron crest on his stationery and silverware. He even made his living by forging Byron letters, and did so well at it that he branched out to include letters guaranteed (by the major) to be from the pens of Keats and Shelley...
...glistening palace of glass and iron the like of which the world had never seen before, Queen Victoria opened London's Great Exhibition, in the hope that its example might "unite the industry of all the nations of the earth." Britannia rode the crest of the wave. As cannons roared a royal salute, thousands of visitors thronged the Crystal Palace to gape at its wonders-the industrial triumphs of the steam age, as well as a champagne made from rhubarb, a knife with 300 blades, and the original Turkish towel (which so pleased Britain's Queen that...