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When the Norfolk is commissioned next August, she will be manned by 500 men and 40 officers, will slice through the water at a 30-knot clip. Her job, when she joins the fleet: to lead the Navy's hunter-killer antisubmarine teams. Sub warfare is getting so complicated that the Navy needs a double-barreled killer, a vessel big enough to act as a command ship for the air-sea teams, and tough enough to help them at the final kill...
...most charts the speed of the Gulf Stream is given as about one knot. After making 1,200 GEK readings, the scientists on the Albatross decided that the stream has been underrated. Between Cape Hatteras and the Grand Bank, it often flows as fast as four or five knots. It also squirms erratically through the Atlantic. Ships steaming through it are sometimes moving with the current and sometimes against it. So their navigators put the average speed of the stream much...
...Wilson," the Sage answered, "we'll tie a knot in their Taylor die Tryon. Don't dis-Smith our vic-Torrey chances. Who are you gonna Yaffa, anyhow...
...maternity floor of St. Anthony's Hospital in Michigan City, Ind., it was a busy Saturday afternoon. Near the end of visiting hours, a knot of a dozen people stood around the window of the nursery; inside, Nurse's Aid Marlene Lubs, 16, was wheeling over one bassinet after another and showing off the babies as their numbers were called by proud fathers or other relatives. Somebody asked for "415-1," which meant James Lawrence Lyons, because his mother was in room 415, bed No. 1. Marlene Lubs did not notice whether...
...clad in trousers, shirt, socks and unionsuit was found lying on the floor of his room in a lodging house. His necktie had been tightened without disturbing its position beneath the collar and the ends wrapped twice around his neck and the tied in a small knot beneath one ear. Above the tie, his face and neck were discolored...