Word: dreadnought
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...charming picture of the Japanese royal family") to Teheran (recent example: a shot displaying new Queen Farah's shapely legs to full advantage). World War I Captain Ingram is also partial to new weapons, runs meticulously detailed, cutaway drawings that have delighted readers from the time of the Dreadnought to the present-day Nautilus. Ingram has never had staff photographers, keeps costs down by hiring freelancers to cover coronations, disasters and funerals. "I make it a rule never to look at the back of a photograph when I pick it out," he says. "I don't care tuppence...
...First Sea Lord, Mountbatten pushed ahead with the "Dreadnought" project to build a fleet of British nuclear submarines. On his new appointment, many Britons would agree with London's Spectator, which last week congratulated the Tory government "on ignoring prejudice, political considerations and pressure from the popular press and [its] own party in appointing the best...
...tighten collections of income taxes, which are high in theory but evaded in practice. And the armed services continued to waste money; e.g., the Navy still keeps in commission the Almirante Latorre, probably the only relic still afloat from the 1916 Battle of Jutland, where it was a British dreadnought...
...hours in the air, ground out in the seconds, degrees and miles of a B-36 flight, mean packing aboard survival kits for the Arctic, life rafts for the ocean, 100 Ibs. of food* to be cooked in two tiny electric ovens-and endless time for minor irritations of dreadnought flying to sap the toughest crewman. The crew's sections are pressurized like bug-bombs. To get from the nose compartment to the rear chamber a crewman has to lie full length on a little roller sled, pull himself hand over hand down an 85-ft. connecting tube...
...Duffy v. Dreadnought. Newark, which recently agreed to lease its port facilities to the Port of New York Authority (TIME, Nov. 3) for an $11,000,000 development program, thought the New Mex would block the program by tying up pier space. So Newark's Mayor Vincent Joseph Murphy, egged on by the local press, ordered out the city's two fire boats, Michael P. Duffy and William J. Brennan, to block the port's narrow entrance...