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Neither the smoke screens of Communist propaganda nor the fog of Western self-doubt could obscure the nakedness of the Communist challenge last week or the facts of growing faith and growing strength in the camp of free men. Items...
Much of the original fog of concession talk had in fact swirled up behind Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, as he journeyed from Moscow to Paris to Bonn to Washington last month, trailing anonymous spokesmen who talked about recasting the situation, making a start on troop reductions in Germany, etc. Macmillan, by his record no soft-liner, had nonetheless stirred worries about appeasement among other NATO members...
...raddled grey-black fog festooned the sea off the New Jersey coast. Homeward bound after a twelve-day Caribbean cruise, the Grace Line's slick, new 20,000-ton luxury liner Santa Rosa steamed north, making a high-speed 20 knots in dangerous, heavily traveled waters. Her voyage was scheduled to end at her New York berth in just five hours...
...claimed that after his radar man spotted Santa Rosa from eight miles and "dead ahead," he changed course to pass port to port according to the Rules of the Road. Santa Rosa then apparently changed course to the left, said Murphy. When he heard the liner's fog signal, he said, he stopped engines and sounded warning signals, but "the Santa Rosa kept coming...
...better known, but its retelling is no less exciting. The 29,000-ton Doria revived Titanic's builders' claims of being an unsinkable ship. Relying on her radar eyes, she barely slackened speed (from 23 to 21.8 knots) as she slammed westward through thick fog past Nantucket lightship on a July night in 1956. Approaching her, eastbound, was the Stockholm, also radar-equipped. Reporter Moscow, who sifted 6,000 pages of testimony, does not solve the mystery of how two ships with radar could collide so disastrously. The last vital blips of evidence were suppressed when the shipowners...