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Down the ways of a Kiel shipyard last week slid a pocket-sized new version of World War II's most awesome vessel: West Germany's first postwar submarine. Christened the U-1, it is the first of twelve such subs that will become part of the West German navy by 1963 to guard the Baltic approaches. Diesel-powered and snorkel-equipped, the U-1 can run submerged for prolonged periods; its teardrop shape gives it an underwater speed equal to the fastest World War II submarines. Carrying a crew...
...Museum of Comparative Zoology. Years ago. both studied at Harvard. ''For us. the transition was easy.'' says Dr. Canet. ''We simply returned to an area we knew.'' But in New Orleans, where 400 refugees are clustered, an architect works in a shipyard, a former gentleman farmer loads milk cans in a dairy, and a lawyer is a $50-a-week warehouse checker. "I have to go on," the lawyer says. "With a family of four, I cannot slip...
...flattened under barrages from 105-mm. howitzers. Evidently disregarding orders from Paris-a tradition with the French army-tanks and armored cars roared 15 miles outside the Bizerte base. Tanks sprayed bullets into the town of Menzel-Bourguiba, nine miles from Bizerte, where the French maintain an arsenal and shipyard. Soon there were 27 Tunisian corpses laid out beneath the stadium bleachers near a sign reading "HalfTime resting place." Ten were civilians. In Tunis thousands had demonstrated, chanting "Na Moutou [We will die]." Few thought they would be taken seriously...
...lumberyard foreman in Wilmington, Calif., True as a boy was a fascinated fossil hunter and "hooked on California Indians." But when he graduated from high school in 1941, he had no money for college ("My family has always figured the hell with education"). True worked in a shipyard, served as an aerial-gunnery instructor in World War II, acquired a small avocado ranch in the Pauma Valley. In 1953 some U.C.L.A. anthropologists interviewed local Indians, fired up True to publish archaeological papers in learned journals. In 1959 he sold part of his ranch for $10,000, let his wife...
...pleased with their lot; at government insistence, they get all the benefits that German workers do, including wages that start at a legal minimum of 65? an hour. But one West German recruiting scheme hit a snag last week. Badly in need of trained labor for his Hamburg shipyards, German Tycoon Willy Schlieker wants to hire up to 500 Scottish shipyard workers who have been threatened with layoffs or slow business at home. But despite his willingness to import a British cook along with them, Schlieker has not been able to get even an advance party of 60 Scots. British...