Word: shippings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WHEN the world crisis shifted last week to the Formosa Strait, Kansas-born, Philippines-bred Jim Bell, chief of TIME'S Hong Kong bureau, was right on the spot. Riding a Chinese Nationalist supply ship for Quemoy, he had just clambered over the side into a landing barge when Communist gunboats launched a surprise night attack. Getting ashore after a hair-raising trip under Red fire, he "sprinted up the beach as fast as an aging correspondent in blue button-down collar, British slacks and a pair of loose loafers could sprint." Three days later, airlifted off Quemoy...
...boarders were quickly subdued, bundled into a motor launch and ferried back to Thor. But Thor's skipper refused to accept them, on grounds that the British had used coercion in removing them from the trawler. Reluctantly, the skipper of the Eastbourne took the Icelanders aboard his own ship-not as prisoners, but as "guests" of the British Admiralty...
Facts in the Field. To cope with the awesome threat of the submarine revolution, the Navy chose one of its most versatile hands, long noted as one of the Navy's most skilled and thoughtful aircraft pilots, a tactical innovator, an experienced operator both on a ship's bridge and in the Big-Think climate of the Pentagon...
...Unfortunate Speech." Jimmy Thach finished out the war as air operations officer of the loo-ship Fast Carrier Task Force, first under Admiral Marc Mitscher, then under Admiral John S. McCain. Five years later, he commanded the escort carrier Sicily off Korea, and in 1955 he went to the Pentagon as senior naval member of the Defense Department's Weapons Systems Evaluation Group. "Forget the Navy," Arleigh Burke told him then, "and think Defense...
...Unlikely Event . . ." For the U.S. builders of the submarines, not the question, but the sudden public interest in it, was new. Should a submarine be hit at top speed by another ship, the result might indeed be disaster. But in port, the experts argued, no ship would be traveling fast enough to penetrate the heavy shielding built around the reactor. "However," said Admiral Rickover, "in the unlikely event that a collision would be so severe and so precisely located as to penetrate the submarine's hull and its reactor system, the reactor is so located in the ship that...