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...Twentieth Century (CBS. 6-6:30 p.m.). The story of World War II merchant seamen on The Suicide Run to Murmansk. Repeat...
...ahead is all her seamen know...
Astronauts heading for some distant planet may not be quite as ignorant as Clough's seamen. But if a spaceshipload of them were to blast off tomorrow, they could not predict their landing point within thousands of miles. Such uncertainty could be disastrous, and Physicist F. E. Lowther of General Electric Co. hopes to do something about it. He is starting his campaign with an effort to correct that old reliable constant of physics: the speed of light (now calculated at 186,282 m.p.h...
...Lured to the sea by boyhood canoeing on the Delaware River, he graduated from Annapolis in 1909, became a gunnery expert. By World War II, he had his rear admiral's flag, led invasion task forces at Sicily and Normandy, instituted the custom of broadcasting battle action to seamen below decks. His last professional contact with China was in 1911-14 as a gunboat ensign on the Asiatic Station during the Sun Yat-sen revolution. His last prolonged contact with the Kennedys was in 1939-1940, when Joseph Kennedy was Ambassador to the Court of St. James...
...deal would require the assent of three smaller maritime unions and at week's end it seemed likely that at least one of them would reject the terms-a move that would force the President to decide whether to demand an 80-day Taft-Hartley injunction against the seamen...