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...fishing for intelligence. All day it had wallowed along in the wake of the U.S. aircraft carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt, scooping up gobs of creamed beef and soggy lettuce in hopes of finding a classified document inadvertently mixed in the mess. Suddenly another American carrier reared on the horizon, and the Russian skipper bellowed an order. Snorting black diesel smoke and heeling heavily to port, his trawler set a course straight for the newcomer. The chase...
...bastards are uncanny in the things they seem to know," says one Navy officer. Often the Conserver's radar will show a blank horizon, when suddenly the Gidrofon jumps into action, heading out to intercept American ships far in the distance. Some U.S. experts think the Soviets are equipped with a below-the-horizon radar that Moscow has bragged about but never shown. "I don't know how Ivan does it," says Hilder, "but I'm impressed...
...bombing North Viet Nam in February of last year, American pilots have been puzzled at the way Ho Chi Minh has used his air force. There were always plenty of MIGs on the ground, and bomber crews occasionally reported sighting small formations of the Russian-built fighters on the horizon. But the MIGs seldom ventured to attack unless the odds seemed overwhelmingly in their favor. Never have they made a concerted effort to protect any target. Never have they been seen over the Panhandle, the vital staging area for all military units infiltrating the South. And in the past year...
Other shots from the cabin window show Gemini in a successful rendezvous and docking maneuver with Agena. As the coupled craft soar toward their record apogee of 850 miles, the curvature of the earth's horizon becomes more pronounced, and the earth assumes an unmistakably globelike shape. Though the pictures are sharp and show geological features plainly, the earth seems devoid of life; it offers no visible evidence of its teeming population, its great cities, its bridges or its dams...
...find it surprising that you described Encounter [Sept. 2] without mentioning either of the cofounders, Irving Kristol and Stephen Spender. Mr. Spender has played a unique part in the literary life of our time. Horizon and Encounter, both of which he edited (the first with Cyril Connolly, the second with Irving Kristol and, after him, Melvin Lasky), have published much of the most interesting criticism and original writing in the last 30 years. The achievements and international standing of Encounter are scarcely conceivable without the influence of Stephen Spender's personal and literary authority...