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Concerning the Skate's 31-day submerged record [July 7]: the Skate has a snorkel for emergency use but, of course, did not use it during the 31-day period. When in use, a snorkel is continually taking in fresh air and exhausting either engine exhaust gas or stale air (it actually has two pipes enclosed in one large tube to make this possible). In our 31-day period the 95 men in the Skate were as completely divorced from the earth's atmosphere as though they had been in outer space. This was made possible...
...U.S.S. Skate % Postmaster...
...presidential office is without a doubt a mankiller, but there is no such thing as an indispensable man-in or out of the White House. Better that we should all skate around on the slippery ice of politics until 1960 than retain a man who knew all the rules where other men were concerned but considered himself sacrosanct when these rules applied to him. I am a Republican and I like and voted for Eisenhower. But I think Adams had all that has happened "coming to him," and I think Eisenhower made the ultimate mistake in not firing him pronto...
Impressive as the performance of the Skate may be in remaining submerged for 31 days [June 9], this is not the record. In the summer of 1945 the German sub U-977, fitted with a snorkel, ran submerged for 66 days while escaping to Argentina from Norway. CHRISTOPHER CLAUSEN Los Altos, Calif...
...Skate did not have a snorkel -a fact which makes its record more impressive...