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Medical problems in Nautilus and Seawolf, Dr. Dobbins told the Queensborough Rotary Club in New York's Long Island City this week, are not merely an extension of those met in conventional diesel-electric subs; they constitute "a really new and unique entity," in which the problem of protecting the crew against radiation is a surprisingly minor factor. Unlike old-fashioned subs, which had a Navy surgeon aboard as an occasional guest, the atomic subs always carry a medical officer and two hospital corpsmen to carry out round-the-clock safety checks and research...
...offensive submarine program is in promising shape. Last week Skate, third U.S. operational atomic submarine, crossed the Atlantic east to west under water in 7 days 5 hr., sliced 20 hours off the old England-to-U.S. record set by Nautilus, became the first boat to complete an Atlantic underwater round trip...
...Russia has some 500 subs to the U.S.'s 200, is building more than 50 a year to the U.S.'s half a dozen or so. The U.S. has three nuclear subs: Nautilus, Seawolf and the brand-new killer sub Skate. The Russian navy may have no atomic subs so far, but the new edition of Jane's Fighting Ships published last week reported that the Russians are designing what they call "under water satellites": nuclear-powered subs capable of launching IRBMs...
...Overvalued School. Another trouble, said Rear Admiral H. G. (Nautilus) Rickover. in Detroit, is the "misconception of the worth of the American high school. We have always overvalued it. It comes out that we have many more children in high school and in college than [Europeans] have in secondary schools and universities, and this makes us proud. But all of these comparisons are meaningless, because the European secondary school graduate has learned more than most of our college graduates; and as to the high school diploma, the less said about it the better...
...example, the 58-ton reactor core was lowered into place as slowly as three-thousandths of an inch at a time, a job that took 24 hours. But for Navy Rear Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, who closely checked the building of the reactor at Shippingport (and of the Nautilus), the whole point was to make the plant "safe enough for my son to play in." To persistent questions from businessmen about the high costs, Rickover has one stock answer: "You people are asking for conception without...