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With this brief ceremony at Electric Boat's Wet Dock D in Groton, Conn., the U.S. last week took a giant step toward a new era of warfare and a revolutionary concept in the Navy's defense role. Hopefully by year's end, George Washington will be armed with 16 nuclear-tipped, 1,200-mile-range Polaris missiles, ready to prowl the globe as an undersea missile-launching platform. She is the first of a projected nine Polaris subs that will give the U.S. a new order of strategic capability against the Soviet Union. "Under this stout...
...native of Newport, R.I., Josephs graduated from Groton School and has received honorary degrees from Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and other universities...
Author De Vries has rationed his wordplay in Tents and cut down on the puns and epigrams. Samples: "persona non Groton," "the Symbol Simons of literature," "What is chastity but an overemphasis on sex?" In Tents, the literary parodies are the thing, and some of them are hilariously...
...Groton Chamber of Commerce...
...Groton, Conn...