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When she has a formal date, the Sarah Lawrence girl will typically dress chicly and drive to New York with her escort to see a show, stop in somewhere afterward, and return in plenty of time for her 2 a.m. curfew (Weekday curfews are 1:30). There is also a great exodus to Princeton, Yale, or home on weekends, leaving the campus quiet and lonely...
...Seventh Fleet's 16 escort carriers-"baby flattops"-of Rear Admiral Thomas L. Sprague's Task Group 77.4 were operating off Samar without knowing that 1) Halsey had taken off after Ozawa or 2) Kurita had come through unguarded San Bernardino Strait and was only minutes over the horizon. A half-hour later, Kurita's shells began splashing around "Taffy 3," one of Task Group 77-4's three task units, under Rear Admiral Clifton Sprague...
Taffy 3's situation was desperate: its six little carriers (each with a single 5-in. gun), three destroyers and four destroyer escorts made no match for Kurita. All "Ziggy" Sprague could do was to make smoke, launch his aircraft and run for his life. In the running fight, Kurita lost three heavy cruisers, one light cruiser, and three destroyers. But Sprague lost two destroyers, a destroyer escort, one baby flattop (another, the St. Lo, was sunk later by a Japanese kamikaze). He took hits on two carriers, a destroyer and destroyer escort and seemed doomed to far worse...
Last week he was busy filling orders for 15 ore carriers, bulk carriers, tankers and escort vessels for U.S. companies and the German navy. His ultramodern yard sends ships down the ways so fast that Schlieker does not even bother to take down tents and grandstands used for launching ceremonies. The 300,000-sq.-ft. yard has the biggest (capacity: 100,000 tons) drydock in Europe, an optical tracing device that projects cutting patterns on steel plates. Overseeing all is an electronic brain named "Big Brother" that tells Schlieker which machines have not worked at full capacity and why. From...
...tiny (20 sq. mi.) pleasure island made no secret of its fear. Police reinforcements patrolled the roads day and night. At sundown women bolted their doors, refused to leave without male escort. Even in daylight many housewives joined in groups for protection; others armed themselves with pistols, ammonia guns, bottles of acid and carving knives. Bermuda had good reason to be scared. In the last seven months, three women have been murdered by a particularly vicious sex maniac; a fourth barely escaped. And the killer was still at large...