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...eight battleships in the harbor crippled or destroyed, 188 planes demolished and another 159 damaged. When Pearl Harbor survivors and military brass gather next Monday for an anniversary ceremony at the Arizona memorial, the mood will still be somber: 1,102 of the dead were entombed in the sunken hulk of the battleship over which the memorial stands...
...then being refitted as an Allied troop transport that could outrun any U-boat. In Normandie Triangle (Arbor House; 475 pages; $13.95), Novelist Justin Scott evokes the grace and power of the great ship even as he describes its destruction and welds an ambitious Nazi stratagem to the smoldering hulk...
...before his cue. In the aftermath of an air raid, he has fled into the center of town and shredded his clothes in a driving rain. Hospitalized, he releases himself and bombards his way into his own dressing room. What Norman is confronted with is a shuddering, sobbing hulk of a man who cannot remember the first lines of a play he has performed 426 times. Sir's wife (Rachel Gurney) and his longtime stage manager (Marge Redmond) are all for canceling the performance, but Norman adamantly invokes the theater's sacrosanct commandment without actually uttering...
...position of the Edinburgh. The ensuing $4 million expedition used a vessel equipped with special computers to maintain its position over the wreckage. Divers, working in pairs, were conditioned to the extreme pressures of the Barents Sea bottom in special chambers aboard the ship, then were lowered to the hulk in a diving bell. To protect themselves from the killing cold of the water as they cut through the Edinburgh 's hull, the divers wore suits that circulated hot water around their bodies...
...fact, it was their growing indifference that finally prompted his exit. Insiders reported that he was frustrated with the network's back-burner treatment of his NBC Magazine with David Brinkley. The show was pitted first against CBS's top-rated Dallas, later against The Incredible Hulk. Brinkley denied reports of contractual disputes with NBC News President William Small. More significant, perhaps, was the news that Today Host Tom Brokaw will anchor Nightly News with Roger Mudd starting next April. Said Brinkley last week: "I'm not happy to be leaving, but there's nothing...