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...moviegoer is introduced to the drug rings of Paris and meets a fine assortment of homosexuals, lesbians, junkies, pushers, and the like, all engaged in providing the Paris populace with various forms of habit-forming goodies. The movie is filled with excellent scenes in Paris sub-cellars and dimly lit alleys, and the sex interest is provided by Magali Noel. In all, Razzia is one that can't be missed, and along with Inspector Maigret should provide excellent relief from exams and Westerns...
...POLARIS MISSILE submarine will be built by General Dynamics Corp.'s Electric Boat division at an estimated cost of $105 million. New sub will be larger than the five other Polaris subs under construction...
...mock U-boat fights. Annapolis trained, with an outstanding submariner record in World War II and Korea (Trutta, Tang, Wahoo), Anderson was tapped for duty with Admiral Hyman Rickover's NRB (Naval Reactors Branch) in January 1956. First came an interview with the caustic godfather of the atomic sub. The Rickover Takeover was part of Navy lore, including such props as a chair with shortened front legs, designed to slide an interviewee forward in disease while a deftly flicked Venetian blind let in eye-dazzling bursts...
...fumble up the title of one book, no author. Dispiritedly, he mailed in his reading list after he got home, just so Rickover would not think him "a total stupe." The list of 24 books won Rickover's respect and helped Anderson join NRB as a potential atomic sub commander...
...They cruised some 1,400 miles under the polar ice but were trapped more than once in sandwich-close quarters between the massive roof of ice (which on the 1957 trip extended as much as 100 ft. below the surface) and the shallow ocean floor. Once, Anderson nosed his sub to the seemingly ice-free surface but jarred against thin ice and blacked out both his periscopes. A 15-hour repair feat, in a choppy sea and bone-numbing wind, restored No. 1 periscope to use. Constant fear: that the conditions at the top of the world, which confuse both...