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Joseph and other sub-freshmen were examined orally by Tutor Remington and assigned a passage from the Aeneid, on which they had one week to write a theme. A week later, Vice-President Willard found Joseph's paper acceptable and admitted him, saying to the Judge, "Your Son is now one of us, and he is wellcom...

Author: By Edmund B. Games jr., | Title: The Start of Harvard Education | 6/12/1958 | See Source »

Last week Silverstein got it again. On antisubmarine maneuvers off Pearl Harbor, Commander Charles S. Swift, the skipper, looked up to see the sub Stickleback dead ahead at 200 yds. Stickleback had just made a simulated torpedo run on Silverstein, was supposed to have dived to a safe depth. Skipper Swift reversed all engines, but was too late to avoid chopping a fatal 4-ft.-wide gash in Stickleback's side. Before sinking to the bottom, Stickleback managed to surface under its own power, making it possible for all 82 crewmen to escape unhurt. Silverstein's sea lawyers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Unlucky Ship | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

...foreign target-maybe. President Arturo Frondizi called a press conference at the Casa Rosada to announce the news. The President disclosed that an Argentine squadron had sighted a periscope while on fleet exercises in Golfo Nuevo, a quiet Patagonian bay, and carried out four depth-charge attacks when the sub ignored the warning to surface as required by international...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Mystery Sub | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

...After the attacks," said Frondizi, "there were oil slicks on the surface of the sea as when a submarine is damaged." Sonar gear aboard the Argentine ships established that the unidentified sub was a "high-speed" modern craft, i.e., U.S., British or Russian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Mystery Sub | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

...Sighted Sub, Sank Same. In Knoxville, Tenn., track and field officials disqualified Miler Jerry Long, who put on a stirring burst of speed while finishing a high-school race -because he had slipped into the race on the last lap when Teammate John Looney dropped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 26, 1958 | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

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