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...morning at dawn last week, the Eurydice slipped out of her port at the resort of St.-Tropez for a three-hour training exercise. Her skipper was Lieut. Bernard de Truchis de Lays, 34, who had served for two years as executive officer of the Minerve but had been transferred a few months before she was lost. At 7:13, the Eurydice sent her last message: she was diving in calm seas off Cape Camarat, 35 miles east of Toulon. A few minutes later, a geophysical laboratory picked up the shock waves of a violent underwater explosion...
...Justice Byron White in a stinging dissent joined by Chief Justice Warren Burger and Justice John Harlan. Pointing out that a Selective Service regulation makes it a continuing duty to register, they argued that the crime of not registering is also continuing. Wrote White: "The majority holds that when dawn breaks on the unregistered male. six days after his 18th birthday, his crime is complete and ended: though the Act specifically declares that he is still liable for induction, he has no obligation to take the step which makes that induction possible. I for one cannot ascribe such inconsistent intent...
...molehill," in this case, was a towering wall of snow that had torn loose from Switzerland's 11,532-ft. Gelmihorn just before dawn one day last week and roared into a group of buildings near the village of Reckingen. Some 50 sleeping occupants were buried in a 40-ft. mound of snow. The canton's rescue squad rushed to the scene with snow-sounding poles and dogs, but its efforts were hampered by a howling blizzard. The eventual toll: 30 dead, 18 injured, most of them officers of a Swiss army unit that had been practice-shooting...
...sight naught but seas at dawn...
...grew to be Time's burst of dawn...