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Snug as a Duck. With the coming of jet engines, the tide (the Navy hopes) has turned again. A jet seaplane with no propellers to worry about can sit on the water as snug as a duck. It needs no landing gear, and this considerable weight-saving permits the hull to be strengthened for rough-water landings. Independent of prepared airstrips, it can make a very long run before taking to the air. Martin believes that this advantage will permit it to carry bigger loads than land-based airplanes of similar size...
When the SeaMaster alights on its liquid runway and wants to go ashore, it will ease its slender hull between the floats of a semi-submerged "beaching vehicle." Then it will move toward shore under its own power. A more elaborate auxiliary will be a drydock that can lift the SeaMaster clear of the water when it needs major attention...
Last week, as the plan began its second year, Parker Operations Vice President Philip Hull announced: "I'm a convinced Scanlon Plan adherent...
Windows (Fri. 10:30 p.m., CBS). The Calliope Tree; with Henry Hull, Van Dyke Parks...
Mice Under Stress. The Navy has one problem which the Army is glad to pass: the sardine-packing of 3,000 or more men into the hull of a single ship for months on end. So the Naval Medical Research Institute at Bethesda is crowding mice into little boxes and checking the working of their adrenal glands (an index to stress). Purpose: to learn how and why their "vitality and viability" go down in a crowd. Other Bethesda specialties...