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...Shark's Fins & Joysticks. In appearance, the Navy's first SSN (Submarine Nuclear) will look much like an ordinary Tang-class sub (TIME, July 9), only bigger and chubbier. It will have the same streamlined gun-free deck, the same sharklike fin rising in the center to house its radar, periscope and snorkel (which is a convenience, not a necessity, on an atomic submarine). Inside, the SSN will open up an entirely new world to sailormen accustomed to the smelly, cramped interiors of standard subs. It will have its own oxygen supply and a special carbon dioxide removing...
...Covo AND His SHARK (235 pp.)-Clemenf Richer-Knopf...
...Coyo catches a baby shark and raises it in a pond. Thanks to the fish Ti-Coyo provides, the shark grows up grateful. Then Ti-Coyo goes after the competition. When a liner full of rich Yankees reaches port, Ti-Coyo and his domesticated shark, Manidou, are waiting. The coins fall, the Negroes dive, Manidou darts out and snaps a diver in two. Ti-Coyo slips into the water, scoops up the coins. The shark looks on benevolently...
While not so exotic as the Marcelin brothers' The Pencil of God (TIME, Feb. 5), Ti-Coyo and His Shark shines with a rich blend of Caribbean mockery and Western sophistication. Author Richer, 37, a native of Martinique who has lived in France since 1927, writes with charm and is tactful enough to keep his fable short. What does it all mean? A satire on imperialism, perhaps, with Ti-Coyo symbolizing the native opportunist? Clement Richer, a nonpolitical fellow who describes himself as a misanthrope, is wise enough not to say; all that can be seen is his literary...
Even in a story with scores of human actors, Ericson and Lockhart stand out as sharp, deeply drawn characters. Ericson, an easygoing veteran of the merchant service, hardens slowly into a killer as cold as a shark. He does not lose his humanity, but it shrinks up inside him like a dried pea. Lockhart is a richer and more appealing nature. He hardens in authority but he does not shrink. He broadens and deepens in his knowledge of men, and at the end, he not only can bear the weight of war, but can shoulder a home-base love affair...