Word: mccann
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Beyond Reach. Even if these scanty signals are picked up somewhere along a sub's disaster course (Scorpion's: 2,500 miles long by 50 miles wide), the device the Navy relies upon to rescue deep-sixed submariners is ancient and inadequate: the McCann rescue chamber, an "undersea elevator" that can remove only eight men at a time from subs in 850 ft. of water or less. Devised in the 1920s, it was last used in an actual undersea rescue when Squalus went down off Portsmouth, N.H., in 1939.* Development of a "Deep-Submergence Rescue Vehicle," begun...
Though the search-by as many as 55 ships and 35 aircraft-continued at a diminished level, it seemed most likely that Scorpion had gone to the bottom in the depths beyond the reach of sonar, divers or the McCann chamber. Unlike the loss of Thresher with 129 men aboard, Scorpion's demise appeared to have nothing to do with inadequate shipyard maintenance: she ostensibly got a "Four 0"-i.e., excellent -rating in an overhaul only last summer, and had performed superbly in the Mediterranean. Had she not remained incommunicado in transit but been required to signal her position...
Along with much of the country, publishers' row figured Lyndon Johnson a cinch for renomination, re-election and reexamination. That was a costly caper, not only for the sponsors of impending paeans such as The Case for Lyndon B. Johnson (Coward-McCann) but also for those who had hoped for easy pickings from a crop of anti-Johnsonia. Even a sympathetic study, the forthcoming A Very Personal Presidency by TIME White House Correspondent Hugh Sidey, stands in need of extensive updating. Taking account of the backlash of sentiment for the President, New American Library has already dropped plans...
...ARTIST TYPE by Brian Glanville. 191 pages. Coward-McCann...
...Walter Thompson; McCann-Erickson; Young & Rubicam; Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn; Ted Bates; Foote, Cone & Belding; Leo Burnett; Doyle Dane Bernbach; Grey Advertising; and Ogilvy & Mather, according to Advertising Age's ranking...