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British and U.S. officials professed to see no danger that Malta would fall under the influence of a competing foreign power like the U.S.S.R. Some Italian strategic experts, however, feared that the island might be a tempting refueling base for Soviet submarines or even a handy Mediterranean flattop for Soviet planes...
...ship with an exceptionally long keel being constructed at the big Soviet naval shipyard in the Black Sea port of Nikolayev. In recent months, as the hull began to take shape, the photos disclosed a number of significant details-large shafts for elevators, huge fuel tanks, a flattop deck. Last week some Defense Department experts were finally willing to make a striking prediction: the Soviet navy, which for years scorned U.S. attack carriers as "floating coffins" and "sitting ducks," is now building...
...Dick Tracy, 1931-1951 by Chester Gould. 291 pages. Chelsea House. $15. Despite 27 bullet wounds during the first 24 years of his adult life, Dick Tracy manfully survived the two decades here recorded. Inevitably, though, the collection is a celebration of scurvy rogues and criminal grotesquery (The Mole; Flattop; 88 Keyes, the larcenous pianist; Jerome Trohs), because the bad guys in Tracy are always more interesting than the detective and his crew of crime stoppers. Gould is a crafty if somewhat primitive storyteller, and this ponderous volume is still exciting enough to be read with something more than nostalgia...
...covered with dog droppings, buzzing with flies. A radio plays through the broken screen door. I can't raise anybody so I go around back, where I find Bill McCorry and Bill McCorry Jr., the owners. The old man wears a cowboy hat and boots, the son has a flattop and cowboy boots, but a city shirt. I ask the son how he's making...
...Japanese plane nosed through heavy rain toward the black waters of the Sea of Japan, leveled off at 300 ft. and closed in on the broad deck and square bridge of the U.S. aircraft carrier Enterprise. Pilot Satoru Kumon tensed as A-4 Skyhawk fighter-bombers rose from the flattop to meet him. But he plunged ahead to circle the carrier and position one of his two companions for sure, close shots of the huge ship. Then, unharmed, the three Japanese fled toward their home base on Kyushu...