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Died. Count Nikolaus zu Dohna-Schlodien, 77, wily, spike-bearded German sea raider whose auxiliary cruiser Moewe (Seagull), disguised as a cargo ship, twice ran the British blockade, destroyed an unequaled 50 vessels between 1915 and 1917; of a heart attack; in Rosenheim. Germany...
...Winter Palace was "stormed"-by the back door. Kennan sardonically notes, for, amid the confusion and vacillation of the defenders, someone had inadvertently left the back door open. At the time, British Ambassador Sir George Buchanan was gloomily watching artillery from the River Neva (blanks from the Russian cruiser Aurora, usually credited with a main role in the palace's capture). U.S. Ambassador David R. Francis was asleep, and a U.S. Red Cross missionary, Raymond Robins, was writing in his diary: "A great day for Russia and the world...
Within seconds, the plane's Curtiss-Wright rocket engine-powerful enough to drive a Navy cruiser-cut in with a roar. Violently the X-2 shot forward. Everest brought up her nose and began an accelerating climb to 70,000 ft. There, under the deep-purple sky, he leveled off, fired up all the rocket power he had and set out for his goal: 2,500 m.p.h.. 850 m.p.h. faster than man had ever flown. The machmeter danced upwards-2.1. 2.2, 2.3. But something was wrong. Trouble in the X-2's engine was holding her down...
...NUCLEAR CRUISER will be built by Bethlehem Steel's Quincy, Mass. yard. Navy's first A-powered surface ship, part of its -56-'57 building program (TIME, May 21), will cost around $87.5 million, be a guided-missile vessel...
...more than 40 years, Duquesne dated his checkered career as international intriguer back to the Boer War (1899-1902). A cool, cunning poseur, he signed his reports to Germany with a rubber-stamp cat's paw, claimed to have plotted the sinking (1916) of Lord Kitchener's cruiser Hampshire. Chief G-man J. Edgar Hoover called his concerted FBI swoop (in 1941) on Duquesne's New York City mob the greatest spy roundup in U.S. history...