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Behind Sir Lionel's statement was a fantastic amount of painstaking work. The Comet G-ALYY (Yoke Yoke), that went into the sea near Naples on April 8, left no remains that could be analyzed, but when Comet G-ALYP (Yoke Peter) crashed on Jan. 10 off Elba, its fragments fell into fairly shallow water. Armed with underwater television cameras and special "grab" equipment, a flotilla of British naval salvage vessels and Italian trawlers scoured the bottom, about 500 ft. deep, and fished up the twisted fragments. In all, they got 70% of the structure...
Napoleon's Letters succeed in their aim of revealing the many sides of Napoleon's character, but they show in particular the man whose vanity was so prodigious that when exiled to the island of Elba, he referred to his 18 marines as "My Guard" and to his small boats as "the Navy." And anyone who wants to get on in the world at any cost will find in the Letters many a useful price...
Practical Politics. In Elba, Ala., Farmer Dewey Adams broke into a polling place where votes cast in a local primary were being counted, chased away election officials with an ax, set fire to 95 ballots, after his arrest explained: "I didn't like the way the election was being...
...Great Britain, TV's most spectacular role has been under water: in 1951, a camera ringed with searchlights was lowered 285 feet to the rocky bottom of the English Channel to find and identify the lost submarine Affray (TIME, Sept. 24, 1951). Off the coast of Elba, Royal Navy TV cameras have plunged for the remains of the Comet jetliner that crashed into the sea last January...
...Trouble. What was wrong with the Comet? Last week's crash was identical with that off Elba. Both occurred in the same sudden fashion, in the same area, just as the aircraft were climbing to cruising altitude at 40,000 feet. Some Britons leaped to the theory that there might have been sabotage. But engineers on both sides of the Atlantic more realistically suspected structural defects. U.S. engineers have argued all along that the Comet was put into commercial service prematurely, and questioned details of its design. Chief question: How safe is the British practice of embedding jet engines...