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Cross-Eyed Radar. The story of the Andrea Doria sinking, less than three years ago, is far better known, but its retelling is no less exciting. The 29,000-ton Doria revived Titanic's builders' claims of being an unsinkable ship. Relying on her radar eyes, she barely slackened speed (from 23 to 21.8 knots) as she slammed westward through thick fog past Nantucket lightship on a July night in 1956. Approaching her, eastbound, was the Stockholm, also radar-equipped. Reporter Moscow, who sifted 6,000 pages of testimony, does not solve the mystery of how two ships...
Died. Meyer Berger, 60, topflight U.S. reporter, rewriteman, columnist ("About New York") for the New York Times, his paper's choice to write major stories from the conviction of Al Capone to the sinking of the Andrea Doria, winner of a Pulitzer Prize (1950); after a stroke; in Manhattan...
Only eleven days after the Andrea Doria sank off Nantucket two years ago, the state-controlled Italian Line decided to commission Genoa's great Ansaldo shipyards to build a replacement. This week the Dona's nearly completed successor, the $30 million Leonardo da Vinci, slid down the ways...
...Like the Doria and her sister postwar ship from the Ansaldo yards, the Cristoforo Colombo, the Leonardo upholds the Italian reputation for style and tourist catching comfort, from her rakishly angled superstructure to her 536 cabins equipped with individually controlled air conditioning and infra-red heat, and her retractable stabilizer fins for smoother steaming in rough weather. Planned for 1,300 passengers, compared to the Doria's 1,290, the Leonardo at 32,000 tons and 760 ft. is 10% heavier and longer. The extra weight is accounted for by safety precautions, including additional compartmenting of the hull...
...ANDREA DORIA SUITS will be settled out of court for about $6,000,000. Two companies involved in 1956 sea disaster-Italian Line and Swedish American Line-have pared c-aims from original total of $116 million, expect to clean up most payments soon...