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...several thousand-and after some diligent work by Witt on the goof button, it soon learned to discriminate infallibly. The Cybertron responds by flashing lights on its console, can give not only "yes" (the submarine) and "no" (the porpoise) answers but a broad variety of "maybes" (sounds like a sub...
...transport ships and amphibious vessels, increase its sea-lift capacity from 1½% divisions to 2 divisions at a time. To make sure the troopships get safely to their destination, the Navy is strengthening its anti-submarine-warfare forces by adding one aircraft carrier, putting an undisclosed number of sub-killing submarines back in service, ordering to active duty some ASW reserve squadrons, and retaining a dozen destroyers that were scheduled for retirement. In addition, the Navy will keep on duty one attack carrier that was slated for conversion to ASW, use it to bolster the Pacific's Seventh...
...Fields Country Club, the Golf Writers Association of America trotted out the new Walter Hagen Trophy, which is to be awarded yearly for "distinguished contribution to the furtherance of Anglo-American golf" in the name of the longtime lion of the links who first won respectability for the once sub-pariah professional. When the selection committee finally chose the award's first winner, it turned out to be Hagen himself, now 68 and an executive of the Wilson Sporting Goods...
...Luckman, onetime (1946-50) boy-wonder boss of Lever Bros. Co., the nine-acre complex will include a 25,000-seat main sports arena, a 4,000-seat auxiliary arena, a 28-story luxury hotel, a 34-story office building, and parking facilities for 3,000 cars. Only the sub-street-level waiting room and the train concourse will be kept of the old Penn Station. In order not to interrupt train service, the builders will install a reinforced concrete slab at street level before razing the superstructure of the station...
...Toned Sonar. Biggest change of all is in the business of sub detection. The search for hidden subs still depends largely on sonar (underwater sound waves), but there has been an important switch: low-power, high-frequency sound has been replaced by low-frequency waves of enormous power...