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...dawn flushed the snow on the mountains of Lebanon, one of the passengers, Robert Bagarry, went on deck to watch the lights of his home town, Beirut, twinkling on the starboard bow. "We were heading north," he said afterwards. "Then suddenly we turned east ... directly towards the land. I felt like yelling to the bridge to tell them they were wrong, but I said to myself, 'They know better than...
...looked out at the ever-empty horizon. Fortunately, there were daily chores to be done: fishing, keeping the log, plotting his position, measuring and recording his blood pressure and corpuscle counts. Fish were plentiful, especially flying fish, which obligingly got caught in the sail and flopped on to the deck during the night. Bombard tried to pass the time by listening to the radio, gazing at photographs of his wife and chil dren, studying plankton under a microscope, taking notes on marine life, composing music (two concertos and half a symphony, he later reported). After the radio battery petered...
This week the Navy hopes to lay the keel for the second of ten proposed $220 million flush-deck carriers of the Forrestal class. The Navy got the money for the carrier by an end run around the Joint Chiefs of Staff, by pressuring Congress and convincing Defense Secretary Lovett. With quiet confidence, the Navy thinks it can get enough money to complete its program of ten supercarriers. In desperation, the Air Force is starting to squawk covertly through its unofficial mouthpiece, Air Force magazine, and publicly in the steel-edged speeches of Under Secretary Roswell Gilpatric...
...exorbitantly expensive: a carrier task group consists of four carriers, must be supported by six cruisers or battleships, 30 destroyers, four scouting submarines, a minesweeping force, and a train of tankers and supply ships. By rough estimate (the Navy will not talk cost figures), such a force with flush-deck carriers costs $2.5 billion. One B50 bomber group, plus cost of air base, fighter protection, fuel, men and antiaircraft guns costs less than one of the new carriers completely armed. And the B50 group can deliver about 15 times as much bomb tonnage to the enemy in a given period...