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...respite from the winged Orwellian threat. During one flight demonstration, a grenade attached to the bomber's underside detonated prematurely and wiped out Bailey's one-craft air force. Undaunted, the designers are now at work on an unproved model. If successful, they dream of a fleet of RPVS prowling overhead long before...
...Kashin-class missile destroyers (comparable to the U.S. Navy's Forrest Sherman-class guided-missile destroyer). Last week Turkey's semiofficial Anatolian News Agency reported that in mid-September a Kashin -class vessel caught fire, exploded and turned into a burning inferno while on Red Fleet patrol in the Black Sea. Despite a frantic Soviet rescue effort, at least 225 crewmen and missile technicians aboard died in the mishap. It was the most shocking peacetime sea disaster since the U.S. nuclear submarine Thresher sank in waters off Cape Cod, Mass., in 1963 with 129 sailors aboard...
...accidental ignition of fuel used in a non-nuclear warhead; they speculate that it may have caught fire while the rocket was still on the ship's missile launcher during a test firing. Although the Raskin-class destroyers were a vital part of the Soviet Mediterranean fleet in the mid-1960s, they have gradually been replaced by newer ships because they have no facilities for helicopters and their missiles can be used only against aircraft. Western experts suspect that the warships often suffered from serious engine defects, which caused fires at sea before...
...other scientists on the potentially disastrous effects of nitric oxides, which also strip ozone of its third atom and reduce it to ordinary oxygen. Large amounts of nitric oxides are given off by the exhausts of supersonic aircraft, and a recent M.I.T. study (TIME, Sept. 9) indicates that a fleet of 500 SSTs flying regularly in or near the ozone layer would deplete it by 12% within 25 years. In the past few months, scientists have been emphasizing the even greater menace of nuclear explosions, which generate huge amounts of nitric oxides. A nuclear war, or atmospheric testing, they...
...narrative is written in prose but he slips lines of verse into it like additional exclamation marks, or commas, or periods. The poetry is raw but effective, as the fragment from his winter in Turkey. Occasionally you can trace the development of a poem later published; a series of fleet stanzas written during scattered days on the island of Poros educe The Thrush (probably his best-known poem), named after a little ship sunk off its shores. A growing awareness of the fierce Greek sun figures in his Three Secret Poems of 1969. Its singularity is a mystery he often...