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NUCLEAR MERCHANT SHIP, the world's first, will be built for U.S. by Louis Wolfson's New York Shipbuilding Corp. on a bid of $20,908,774. Keel for 587-ft. N.S. (for nuclear ship) Savannah will be laid next year, launching is set for 1959, and in 1960 the 20-knot, 10,190-d.w.t. vessel will start operating as "a floating laboratory to study nuclear power [in] commercial shipping...
...heavily guarded palace in Havana, Batista looked tired but confident. Still backed by the army, he could count on a good sugar crop to keep the island's economy on an even keel. But as long as Castro remained free to fight and sabotage, Batista's regime would obviously be in danger...
When the first manned spaceship takes off for Mars, it may be followed through emptiness by radio beams, perhaps by television. Comforting words and familiar sights from the receding earth will be useful for keeping the crew on an even mental keel. Also useful will be the voice of a soothing space psychotherapist...
...once called Supreme Court Justice Stanley Forman Reed. "He isn't the most brilliant member of the court, but he has good judgment." Other lawyers talked about Mr. Justice Reed's prodigious seven-day workweeks, his methodical and careful briefs, his success in keeping an even legal keel through 19 Supreme Court years. "No one could say," a former law clerk summed up, "that anybody was mad at Stanley Reed...
...ship. To protect the instruments from as much motion as possible, the Compass Island is equipped with wing-shaped gyrofins, which cut down roll from 7½° to a barely perceptible .4°. Among the ship's other refinements: a giant, airfoil-shaped sonar dome beneath the keel that will measure ship's speed (and which has already earned the nickname "droop snoot...