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Shorter by 50 feet than the lean, 310-foot fleet "boats" of World War II, the new Tang-class subs looked like a cross between a whale and a shark. Gone was the familiar deck gun and the round conning tower, with its crest of periscopes, radar and radio masts. The decks of the new subs were clean and knife-narrow. Down the center reared a thick, sliced-off fin to house their twelve masts and the snorkel, which will enable them to run on engines instead of batteries at periscope depth. They had bow planes that whipped out automatically...
Oliver Twist. Director David (Great Expectations) Lean's brilliant adaptation of the Dickens novel (TIME...
Oliver Twist. Director David (Great Expectations) Lean's brilliant adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel; with Alec Guinness, John Howard Davies, Robert Newton (TIME...
When the National Collegiate Athletic Association voted (161 to 7) to ration football telecasts this fall, it proposed a diet of one game a week for each television area. This lean fare, the N.C.A.A. hoped, would get the football public out of its armchair and back into the stands again. But last week, tempted by an offer of some $250,000 from ABC for the right to televise its eight home games, the University of Pennsylvania plunked the public back in its armchair by announcing it intended to defy the N.C.A.A. ruling...
Oliver Twist. Director David (Great Expectations) Lean's brilliant adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel; with Alec Guinness, John Howard Davies, Robert Newton (TIME...