Word: nautiluses
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...high-stakes power and propaganda contest called the cold war, the U.S. piled up one of its biggest weekly scores so far. Capturing men's imaginations round the world, and replying persuasively to Russia's Sputniks, the U.S. Navy's atomic submarine Nautilus completed a historic transpolar voyage under the vast Arctic ice pack, fulfilling in a 20th century way the centuries-old dream of a northern passage from ocean to ocean (see Armed Forces). And in the arena of diplomacy, the U.S. scored high when Nikita Khrushchev, tangled in his own diplomatic web, rejected...
This week the U.S. prepared to go to the United Nations General Assembly to lay out its case for defending stability and order in the beleaguered Middle East. With a strong symbol of achievement in Nautilus, with diplomatic decks cleared of Khrushchev's summit trip wires, the U.S. could hope against hope that the free world could now get on with the business of achieving order, prosperity and independence in the Middle East...
...started shouting (discreetly, late in the night, at a typewriter). Morris was one with Thomas Wolfe, Eugene O'Neill, and all the other neurotics who never really adjusted to Harvard, as contrasted with James Gould Cozzens, Eliot, Edward Arlington Robinson, and George Santayana--the crew of the Cambridge chambered nautilus, the Brattle Street spiritus mundi...
Frig Leak. In the old pigboats, many other fumes and gases could be safely disregarded because they were periodically flushed out. Example: leaks of a common refrigerant gas (its identity remains a Navy secret) used in subs for many years. With Nautilus and Seawolf staying below for days and even weeks, the concentration of this gas built up to a point where many crew members had irritation in their respiratory systems; undetected and uncorrected, it would have become a definite health hazard...
...other: Lieut. Commander John H. Ebersole; who served in Nautilus for the first year after her commissioning (1954), then transferred to Seawolf, while Commander Dobbins went to Nautilus...