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...world's first aluminum submarine. Its 51 -ft. hull consists of eleven forged cylinders. Since aluminum's strength-to-weight ratio exceeds that of steel, the Aluminaut's 6½-in.-thick shell will withstand pressures of 7,500 lbs. per sq. in. at the sub's 17,000-ft. maximum diving range. At the same time, the craft is buoyant enough to surface, submerge and operate easily under its own power...
...Washington, paying a rare honor to a foreign figure, Mrs. Thomas C. Mann, wife of the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, christened the U.S.'s newest polaris sub U.S.S. Simon Bolívar, after South America's great 19th century liberator...
...side in Moscow's ideological quarrel with Red China. He invited 25 Red delegations to Moscow on Dec. 15 to lay the groundwork for a full-scale summit meeting of the world's 90-odd Communist parties sometime in 1965. Nikita had hoped to convene his sub-summit this fall, but the recalcitrance of his Eastern European satellites-notably Poland and Rumania-forced him to delay. Both Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka and Rumania's Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej feared that an open split with China would free Khrushchev's hand to impose tighter discipline on them...
Last week a Senate judiciary sub-committee began intensive hearings aimed at revising drastically the way the regulatory agencies handle their work. Whatever the committee decides, its hearings are sure to add further to the argument over the federal agencies. The Senate is already considering creation of a permanent administrative body that would serve as a watchdog over the entire regulatory process. The Republican platform singles out "power-grabbing regulatory actions" as a campaign issue, and Lyndon Johnson has made it plain that he wants the agencies to concentrate on "more cooperation with, instead of more regulation of business...
...modest level, the organization's technicians were making sound if unspectacular proposals for increased inter-African trade, the establishment of an O.A.U.-wide commission of jurists, improved telecommunications and transportation. It was an irony of the conference that some of its delegates would have to fly to their sub-Saharan homes by way of Europe...