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More than 1,500 miles from landfall at San Salvador, the caravels came upon smooth seas, drizzling rains and a whale. Whales had always been seen close to shore for the same good reason boatswain birds had: men had never sailed far enough to see them elsewhere. On Sept. 25...
¶ The Air Force had decided to drop the preliminary "blue" air raid warning signal, use only the "red" signal (which means duck, the attack is imminent). Reason: the speed of modern bombers. Once bombers were sighted there would be no time for preliminaries, barely time to duck.
It was no new thing for Smith to be late getting into the war, or not to get into it at all. He had to wait in California while his assistant division commander, Brigadier General Edward Craig (TIME, Aug. 14), took advance elements of the ist to Korea for the...
Snakes & Pirates. The Portuguese, who first sighted the island in 1590, were so entranced by its vistas of purple mountains rising out of lush, green lowlands that they named it Ilka Formosa (Beautiful Isle). But the Beautiful Isle has its shortcomings. In August and September it is whipped by destructive...
The 15 swimmers who didn't make it had plenty of excuses. Egyptian Fahmy Attallah was put off by 6-in. practice shells from an English shore battery which kept plopping into the water ahead of him. Panagiotis Kamberos of Greece was disqualified when his trainers yanked him into...