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Immediately after his permit to enter Japan was denied, Fairbank voluntarily filed non-Communist affidavits with General Marshall, Secretary of State Acheson, and Senator McCarran (D.-Nev), who is in charge of the Senate Sub-Committee on Subversive Activities...
...count what you've got left, not what you've lost." It was a good thing that Ed Reeves felt that way. In the bitter fighting around the Changjin Reservoir last winter, he had been hit by a Communist mortar burst, had lain helpless in the sub-zero weather for nine days. Army surgeons had to take off both of his frozen feet and the fingers on both hands...
Underwater, in its natural element, the atomic sub will have a destroyer's speed: 25 knots for steady cruising, 30 or 35 knots in emergencies. Her skipper will have an airplane's joystick to maneuver his craft in steep turns and dives, "fly" it like a fighter pilot in fast attack runs. Since the SSN's atomic engine needs no telltale snorkel to suck down air, it can travel deep underwater indefinitely. Its cruising range will be limited only by the ability of its crew to stand the tedium of days or weeks underwater...
...atomic sub," said one high-ranking Navy officer, "would make all surface craft obsolete." In war, a fleet of them could sweep the seas clean of enemy shipping, lie off enemy coastlines lobbing guided atomic missiles into his ports and industrial centers. The new sub also has an important defensive mission; nothing frightens a submarine commander more than the thought of another sub _ silently stalking him underwater. With its high speed and unlimited endurance, the atomic sub, say Navy submariners, can track down and kill enemy subs more efficiently than any other weapons in the Navy's arsenal...
...Tokyo early this summer, Admiral Sherman announced that the atomic sub will be ready for war within "two or three years." Last week, after five years of work, the word from Captain Rickover's scientists was that it may be ready a lot sooner than that...