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...movie houses all over the U.S. this week, Disney is offering a major effort in "live action," a $4,200,000 production of Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, starring Kirk Douglas as the harpooner and James Mason as the sinister Captain Nemo. The picture has its faults, but they are not the kind that will make Disney any box office trouble...
Most such developments are far in the future, but many ambitious young officers are already getting in on the ground floor of nuclear submarining. The first big prize, command of the Nautilus, went to Commander Eugene P. Wilkinson, now known to his envious associates as "Captain Nemo...
...built by Robert Fulton in 1800, was named after the paper nautilus, a mollusk that was mistakenly thought to cruise the surface of the sea with fleshy sails, and to submerge at will. Most famed Nautilus (named after Fulton's) was the prodigious sea raider commanded by Captain Nemo in Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. † Natural uranium from which some of the nonfissionable U-238 has been removed, leaving a larger proportion of fissionable 0-235. *The story of Rickover's campaign to develop the nuclear submarine is told in detail...
...shall have the honor, sir, to meet you with drawn claymore, sir, behind the auld kirk at dawn. To paraphrase the Scottish national motto, Nemo me impune lactessit...
...original motto of Scotland's Order of the Thistle is: Nemo me impune lacessit (No man provokes me with impunity). Rough translation of Reader Henderson's paraphrase: "No one may milk me without paying the piper...