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...Confederate officer aboard the Shenandoah who witnessed the conflagration recalled "a scene never to be forgotten by any one who beheld it." As flames consumed them, the eight crewless vessels drifted like crazed, rudderless ghost-ships amid the ice-floes. "The red glare from the eight burning vessels shone far and wide over the drifting ice of those savage seas; the crackling of the fire as it made its devouring way through each doomed ship fell on the still air like upbraiding voices." Chaos reigned: "The sea was filled with boats driving hither and thither, with no hand to guide...
...industry is eagerly putting them to the test. An electronic computer runs crewless auxiliary locomotives on long Louisville & Nashville freight trains. The New York Stock Exchange is installing a computer system that can answer brokers' questions, keep track of floor transactions at each trading post, and feed quotations to the ticker at the rate of 16 million shares a day. More than 100 companies control their inventories with computers, which record every sale and tell managers when and how much to reorder. Borrowing an idea from the airlines, Long Island's Maxson Electronics Co. plans by next July...
...Crewless Liner. The success of the Saturn SA-5, which puts the U.S. far ahead of the Russians, is more than mere astronautical muscle-flexing. It was achieved by almost incredible complexity and sophistication. The first-stage booster, built by Chrysler, gets its 1,500,000 Ibs, of thrust from eight H-l engines originally developed by North American for the Atlas and other mis siles. Their tangle of auxiliary plumbing is like a jam session of snakes, and it gives most engineers the shudders...
...flexible tubing, from nine tanks interconnected so that if one engine fails, the others will use its share of fuel and burn longer. Backing up the engines is an incredible array of pumps, valves, gas generators, high-pressure tanks and cables. Saturn SA-5 is as complicated as a crewless ocean liner operated by flash-quick automatons...
...band of armed robbers climb a hill near the mouth of the Nile and stare down at an awesome sight. A richly laden but crewless merchant ship is moored near shore, the remains of a banquet lie scattered along the beach, and all around sprawl the bodies of slain men. Only two are alive: a badly wounded young Greek named Theagenes, who is being tended by Charicleia, a girl so beautiful that the brigands think she must be a goddess...