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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Details are not yet available on this project. Somebody still has to figure how to pull students out of DP camps, how to get them across the ocean, how to support them in this country. But the State Department has told an NSA official that it likes the idea, and if NSA can now interest colleges in a feasible project, the DP plan may somehow, someday succeed...
Sixty-nine refugees who feared that the Russian threat might reach into Sweden for them crowded into the Prolific, a blunt-nosed fishing schooner, about half as big as the Mayflower. They had sailed over 6,000 miles of ocean to reach a U.S. haven. They had weathered storms in the Bay of Biscay and off Cape Finisterre. They had traded their clothes for grapes and coconuts in Madeira and broken their steering gear in a hurricane off Bermuda. Under leaky hatches in fetid, 90° heat, their women had nursed children sick with chicken pox. After 60 days...
...says the Times, "these quick, tremendous, inventive, bold people are to be tested once more." For the third time in history their empire is on the rocks. It broke up once when Joan of Arc smashed the Anglo-French alliance. It abandoned the Channel and reformed across the ocean, only to come to grief again at the hands of George Washington's men. The question facing Britons now, says the Times, "is whether, and, if so, in what shape, it will reform . . . Very few societies have done this trick twice. None, except perhaps the Greek, with Athens, Alexandria...
...Washington and in the capitals of Europe the telecom machines clattered: "This is Washington ...." "This is London . . ." "Embassy Moscow replying . . ." In the telecom room at the State Department, Under Secretary of State Robert Lovett sat day after day until the early morning hours, instructing, consulting, talking across an ocean and half a continent...
...feet in outside diameter with thick walls to resist the enormous underwater pressure. It will not be suspended from a cable, like William Beebe's bathysphere (which set a 3,000-ft. depth record in 1934). The Piccard sphere will float like a balloon in the ocean depths, supported by tanks filled with buoyant gasoline. A heavy iron keel attached by electromagnets will cause the sphere to sink. To rise, Piccard will cut the electric current and release the keel. The bathyscaphe can cruise slowly by means of two propellers driven by a small electric motor. A searchlight will...