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...around 1,000 ft. 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...
...others remained alive behind a watertight hatch. They sent a smoke bomb and a yellow buoy carrying a telephone to the surface. Four hours later another sub found the buoy, talked by phone with those trapped below. Twenty-four hours after the Squalus sank, a Navy diver reached her deck and directed a 10-ton diving bell in four dramatic descents that saved...
...CLAUDIO ABBADO. 29. from Milan, had by far the most flair. He stood with feet planted as on a rolling deck, and with great sweeps of the arms drew a rich and textured sound from the orchestra. A pianist. Abbado had none of the usual percussive tastes of the pianistic conductor: instead, he even trusted the beaters and blowers in the orchestra to come in without cues while he painted tones in the violin section. Abbado studied at the Mozarteum and the Vienna Academy of Music, and in 1958 he won the Koussevitzky Prize for conductors at Tanglewood...
Defense Secretary Robert McNamara last spring stood beside President Kennedy on the tenth-deck bridge of the nuclear-powered carrier Enterprise. For as far as the eye could see, other U.S. ships deployed over the Atlantic seascape. Overhead screeched half a dozen different types of carrier-based planes. The U.S. Navy was conducting an exercise aimed at impressing its civilian bosses. The show impressed McNamara all right-but not in the way the Navy intended. He leaned over to Kennedy and asked: "What good are all these different kinds of planes...
...last, Lacy pushes the red button-and holds it down. A console lights up: "Captain's permission to fire." The weapons officer, Lieut. Commander Russell McWey, shouts "Fire One." The ship's fire control supervisor presses his own "fire" button. A five-ton steel hatch opens on deck, and a burst of compressed air ejects a 15-ton, 30-ft. Polaris A-2 missile. Skyward from beneath the sea's surface, the missile hurtles toward its target...