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Many U.S. submariners, who should know, look upon zigzagging generally as just a waste of time and fuel. During McVay's trial, Captain Glynn R. Donaho, submarine skipper with a long list of kills, told the court flatly that zigzagging is "of no value" in evasive action. In ten seconds, he said, he could correct for a target's change of course. The dubious protection that zigzagging gives a ship is offset by the fact that it allows slower-moving subs to keep...
...list of logs that needed a shove was impressive. On the biggest, control of the atom, London heard that the talks were going well. But no statesman had quite faced the fact that atomic control presupposes that international inspection will prove both technically and politically possible. The Russian character and the semi-conspiratorial background of the Soviet regime were against easy acceptance of any inspection scheme. There was a good chance that a plan of agreement would be drafted in Moscow, but the odds on real atomic control in 1946 stayed remote...
Last week Chief Justice Stone produced a list of the paintings, which was sure to make museum directors come hurrying round to beg for just a peek. Among the 202 masterpieces were five Botticellis, 15 Rembrandts, six Rubens, six Van Eycks...
What were the biggest news stories of 1945? On anybody's list, the biggest was the atom. Looking back over a year that was chockablock with news of history-book size, the press associations last week had no trouble filling their lists with big stories. The U.P.'s top twelve events, picked for their "surprise, significance and headline display...
...Hitler's, Germany's surrender, UNO's birth, Labor's victory in England, the bomber crash into the Empire State Building, the Potsdam Declaration, the atomic bomb, Japan's surrender, the war-crimes trial, the U.A.W. strike. Hearst's I.N.S. "best ten" list added the Pearl Harbor inquiry...