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Massachusetts Democratic Senator Teddy Kennedy thought he had a fine idea. Why not move the U.S.S. Constitution-"Old Ironsides"-from its berth at Boston Naval Shipyard's Pier 1 to New York next summer so that millions visiting the World's Fair could see the famed frigate...
Reviewed in grim detail were the technical problems that had kept Thresher in overhaul for nine months at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. The sub's defects, witnesses insisted, were remedied before the ship took to sea for its post-overhaul cruise. But, tragically and all too obviously, something did in fact go wrong. And the list of Thresher's troubles was indeed formidable. Items...
...Palmer, Portsmouth yard commander, testified that all inspection reports seemed "satisfactory." Angered,Vice Admiral Bernard L. Austin, presiding over the board of inquiry, snapped: "There is a difference between 'satisfactory' and 'satisfactory without a shadow of a doubt.' " Palmer agreed and admitted that his shipyard sometimes "took on new jobs without adequate lead time, and without knowledge of availability of material, and underestimated work time." That, he agreed, might be called "unsatisfactory...
They run the biggest textile plant in Central America, the largest fishing fleet in Venezuela, the greatest shipyard in Brazil. They chatter in soprano Spanish with the first families at El Salvador's Club Salvadoreno, mine copper in Bolivia, spin yarn in Argentina, produce drugs in Mexico. The resourceful investors from Japan, venturing where U.S. businessmen have become reluctant to tread of late, have made Latin America their No. 1 in vestment target. Though Japan's total investment of some $390 million is hardly in the same league with the U.S. commitment of $8.2 billion in Latin America...
...central concentration of Japanese industry is in Brazil, to which sizable numbers of Japanese farmers have been emigrating since 1908, notably to Sao Paulo. The Japanese in Brazil control 67 firms ranging into insurance, banking, cement, glass and machinery. The Japanese-run Ishikawajima shipyard is working on its seventh vessel, and the new Usiminas steel plant, backed by a consortium of 14 Japanese companies, will pour 500,000 tons of pig iron this year. In Peru the Japanese have become leaders in the booming fish-meal industry, are also building a railroad in the backlands. In Honduras, Japan...