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Nonetheless, awaiting action in Congress is a bill by Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Warren Magnuson to authorize construction of as many as six successors to Savannah. Meanwhile, he believes, she should be kept in commission. Her backers argue that scrapping Savannah could set back development of a nuclear merchant fleet by five to ten years. "It was a long time between Robert Fulton's steam boat and operating steamships," says a U.S. maritime official. "Then the British used steam for years while we stuck to sails-and we never did catch up with their head start...
...released two years later to work as a scout for the Australians against the Vichy French in Syria. During a fire fight, a bullet drove his binoculars into the left side of his face, destroying an eye, which he has kept covered ever since with a Hathaway-style black patch. Despite his wound, Dayan was eventually back in action, leading the Haganah commandos in 1948. Soon after, he took command of the Jerusalem front in Israel's first war with the Arabs. In 1953, he was made Chief of Staff, and he taught the Israeli army his uncompromising philosophy...
...independent, and an outspoken iconoclast, Dayan was a success at every job he tried. But the profession of arms is his first love. He went back into uniform last week with calm confidence. If he had any complaint, it was that the desk-bound duties of a Defense Minister kept him from spending as much time as he would have liked with his troops; there was too much paper work waiting in his command bunker in Jerusalem. Even so, at least once a day he motored, flew or helicoptered to inspect some military field position. He wanted...
...Barka would not go away that easily. The French press and public kept it alive with muckraking relish. Eventually the flics collared two of their own vice-squad men, one part-time informer for the French and Moroccan secret services, one ranking French secret-service official, one Moroccan cop and one journalist who was also a police informer. They also implicated four French underworld types they could not lay their hands on and Moroccan Interior Minister Mohamed Oufkir and his deputy, Ahmed Dlimi, who were both safe at home...
...happy coincidence, the museum was exhibiting a 5,000-year panorama of royal objets d'art and artifacts entitled "In the Presence of Kings," to which the young monarch presented an exquisite 18th century gold sword. "The Thai people are a fighting people," said Bhumibol. "We have kept our liberty and independence for hundreds of years. We are not militant. We just have to fight to keep the most essential thing for a man. And that is freedom...