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...down), faster (35 knots underwater), and more silently than any submarine ever built. Two other Thresher-type subs. Permit and Plunger, have since been launched, and 22 others are under construction. Thresher's teardrop-shaped hull had no flat surfaces; when venturing on her deck, crewmen wore special adhesive shoe soles. The hull was speckled with more than 1,000 tiny listening devices. She could travel 60,000 miles without refueling, stay out three months without support. The mission for which Thresher was built: to seek out enemy submarines with her keen underwater ears and destroy them...
...Harvard's eight crewmen have competed in previous McMillan Cup regattas. Skipper Carter Ford, relief helmsman John Marshall and foredeckman Mike Horn will be sailing for the third straight year...
...patrol last week. That two-thirds ratio is standard-although during the height of the Cuba crisis, all nine were ordered to sea. The location of the subs on patrol is known only to a small circle of top military and Government leaders. All that most of the crewmen and officers know is that they are somewhere within their missiles' 1,500-mile range of Soviet targets...
Manning the Ethan Allen was its "Blue Crew"; the Polaris submarines two-platoon their crews, and the alternate "Gold Crew" was now at New London, Conn. For Polaris crewmen a patrol starts with a change into a special navy-blue Dacron and cotton coverall. The coverall reduces lint in the closed environment, has no cuffs or belts to get tangled in gear. "But," complains one officer, "it's next to impossible to go to the head in this outfit without dunking part...
Most present day productions lack the quality of the silent films, Miss Gish believes, because the enormous costs have destroyed the strong community feelings that existed among the people who made old-time movies. In the '20's, actors and crewmen could always make suggestions to directors, and often these suggestions were used. "Lillian and I made our own costumes for Orphans, and Griffith or Billy Bitzer [Griffith's favorite cameraman] would always listen to our ideas." With today's high-budget films, each day of shooting costs upwards of $5000. There is not time to have such consultations...