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Through the hangar bay and in the compartments above the main deck Constellation became a giant bake oven. The racing flames, fed on a maze of wooden scaffolding and trash that littered the decks, ate hungrily through fire-resistant wiring insulation and paint. Rushing for safety, work crews found the companion-ways blocked by billowing smoke, retreated to airtight compartments (there are 3,000 in the ship), where they hammered on bulkheads in the hope of attracting help. One man was trapped for six hours before firemen found him. Some dropped from portholes into the icy East River, where they...
...look at the most expensive operation in the U.S. Government: the Defense Department, which devours more than half the federal budget. For a start, he asked Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington and a five-man committee of civilian experts to study ways and means of modernizing the organizational maze that winds through the Pentagon. It was a job with plenty of precedents, for critics have been suggesting revisions in the Defense Department ever since it was established...
This Way Out. As a way out of this maze, NATO Commander General Lauris Norstad last week outlined a proposal he has been urging for over a year: the creation of a nuclear weapons stockpile to be placed under NATO control and left there so long as the alliance endures. Such a step would presumably stave off any German demand for independent nuclear strength, would also quiet the longstanding fear of NATO's European members that in the event of a Soviet attack on Europe the U.S. might hesitate to use its deterrent in the hope of avoiding Russian...
This was no work for amateurs or bunglers. To gain access to the heavily shielded core vessel, high-density concrete slabs first had to be lifted by remotely controlled cranes, exposing the underground room that houses the reactor and its maze of pipes and pumps. The cell was then flooded with 20 ft. of water to protect the technicians from radiation while they lowered specially designed long-handled tools into a flanged opening, 2⅛ in. in diameter, at the top of the vessel. Then, cutting torches and reamers, operated by delicate levers, rounded out the irregular-shaped holes...
...five years of life, Buckley has led National Review through a sometimes baffling intellectual maze. In 1956, one of its editors, James (The Managerial Revolution) Burnham, recommended President Eisenhower's reelection: "The least bad choice." In the same issue, another editor, William S. Schlamm, urged Eisenhower's defeat: "To liberate the Republican Party from the man who is destroying it." In 1960 the magazine has endorsed Richard M. Nixon, but with the back of its hand ("Who likes Nixon's Republicanism? We don't"), as the only alternative to the Democrats' John F. Kennedy...