Word: shipyarders
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...launching last week of the Navy's second atomic submarine at Groton, Conn., 20,000 guests crowded into the Electric Boat shipyard and a Congressman's lady, Mrs. W. Sterling Cole of Bath, N.Y. cried, "I christen thee Seawolf.* Before she could swing the traditional champagne bottle, the sleek, 3,000-ton sub began sliding down the ways. To superstitious seamen, a botched christening means bad luck, but Elizabeth Cole made a last-second pitch, the twelve-ounce bottle of California champagne shattered, and bubbles splashed satisfactorily over the Seawolf's beflagged...
...being or under construction, and in rapid succession thereafter, many others . . . Nuclear propulsion for larger naval ships, e.g., carriers, is well advanced." Next, he predicted atomic aircraft, and particularly "nuclear-powered seaplanes." Without ceremony or speeches, early in the morning of the Seawolf's launching, the same shipyard began the assembly of a third, smaller, improved atomic sub marine...
...shipyard, Khrushchev spotted a riveter, demanded: "Why are you using such old-fashioned methods? In Russia we use welding." At Ljubljana he rushed through a turbine factory, stopping neither to look at turbines nor to talk to workers, until he came upon a room supported by concrete buttresses. He was a real expert on concrete, he informed his guides. At home he had been fighting engineers who wanted to use steel, which was heavier and more expensive. ''Of course, you people use concrete out of necessity,'' he added. Signing guest books, Khrushchev grabbed the pen first...
...Brazilians reported that Higgins Inc., New Orleans shipbuilders, talked seriously of investing in a shipyard project, that a Texas group was buying shares in a machinery-import corporation, that two U.S. investment syndicates were interested in a new $2,500,000 cement plant...
...Vice President of the United States was sued last week for assault and false imprisonment. James Heavey, 29, a San Francisco Naval Shipyard draftsman, charged that Richard Nixon had caused him to be forcibly detained at a political meeting in San Mateo last October. Everyone agreed that Heavey had shouted, "Tell us a dog story, Dick," in the midst of a televised speech, and that the Vice President had ignored the heckling until after the broadcast. Then, according to one version of the story, Secret Service men had held Heavey on Nixon's orders, while the Vice President publicly...