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...Governor attacked the Kennedy Administration for moving "steadily toward the Russian position." "Why should the Soviets accept the United States proposal," he asked, "when every refusal elicits a new United States offer?" Rockefeller's statement completely disregarded Ambassador Arthur Dean's testimony before a Senate Foreign Relations sub-committee on August 2, 1962. Dean, the United States representative at the Geneva Disarmament Conference, outlined in detail the scientific data that prompted the government to alter its position. Rockefeller's statement, because of its failure to consider all available information, presented neither a reasonable nor a constructive criticism. It seemed...
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...
While armed guards kept outsiders out, a Navy board of inquiry last week continued hearings into the death of the nuclear submarine Thresher. Much of the testimony, taken from Thresher crewmen who were on leave during the sub's fatal test cruise, and from technicians and nuclear-power experts, was classified as secret. But what did become public was enough to make any landlubber stay just that...
...sub's main seawater valves, used mostly to bring in water to cool the nuclear reactor system, had not been closing properly. So many valves were switched around during Thresher's overhaul that in one simulated dockside emergency, it took 20 minutes for the sub's crew to find the valve necessary to cut off the flow through a "broken" pipe. Yet in the actual diving conditions during which Thresher died, survival could come only with the crew closing off such a flow within seconds. »The air pressure system had been leaky. To surface...
...world history"-a city of intellect that is not really private and not really public, neither entirely of the world nor entirely apart from it. In delivering this year's annual Godkin Lectures at Harvard, Kerr gave this institution a new name: "the multiversity"-a cluster of sub-universities spouting ideas at a time when "knowledge has never been so central to the conduct of an entire society...