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...TURBINE ENGINES will soon be competing in the pleasure-type small-boat market. Boeing Airplane Co. has won first commercial contract to install eight 240-h.p. gas turbine engines (used to start jet planes, power minesweepers) on cruiser fleet operated by Creole Petroleum on Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo. New engines give speeds up to 33 m.p.h., weigh one-fourth as much as comparable piston engines...
...armies can safely be streamlined without any cost in striking power-as the U.S. did with its "new look" of two years ago-and the savings can be spent on other things, notably more air power, heightened missile development. In Britain, Khrushchev had grandly offered to sell the British cruisers like the one he came on. "Under modern conditions," grinned Khrushchev, doubtless reflecting the thinking of Russia's top military men, "the best thing a cruiser can be used for is to carry guests to a friendly country...
...exception to the rule that all U.S. cruisers are named after American cities, because the gallant Australian cruiser Canberra met its end along with three U.S. cruisers in the Battle of Savo Island...
...frogman been spying on the Soviet cruiser and destroyers lying in Portsmouth harbor? What could he see underwater if he had been spying? Had the Russians (who brought Bulganin and Khrushchev to England) caught the frogman and quietly taken him prisoner? Had they done him in, or had they dumped his body at sea to save embarrassment...
...evasion did not dispel curiosity; it doubled it. The obvious inference was that Commander Crabb had been employed by some secret arm of the government. Whatever the intelligence agency hoped to learn under the Soviet cruiser Ordzhonikidze was plainly not worth the risk of being caught at it. The furor swelled. Britain's Labor leaders had a special reason for pressing the attack. They were embarrassed by rank-and-file criticism that they had been unmannerly to B. & K. at the famous dinner party (TIME, May 7) and were anxious to convict Sir Anthony of even cruder mistreatment...