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...eyed after two days without sleep, stocky, sandy-haired Rear Admiral William Guest ordered crewmen on the sea-stained, 2,100-ton submarine rescue ship U.S.S. Petrel to start heaving in on the winch. Four cold, tense hours later, as dawn exploded over the Mediterranean horizon, the sunken 2,800-lb. H-bomb that had defied every attempt at retrieval for 80 days splashed out of the water onto the Petrel's fantail...
Spikes & Volts. Leopoldo Pirelli is a deeply tanned sailing enthusiast and an imaginative businessman, the third in the family line since Giovanni Battista Pirelli established the company in 1872 because his patriotism was hurt when Italy had to import rubber tubing to raise a sunken ship. He set up a factory on the site of the present Milan skyscraper headquarters, and from there Pirelli grew to be Italy's fourth largest company. Giovanni's son Alberto helped sponsor the Peking-to-Paris auto expedition in 1907 as a promotion for Pirelli tires. Alberto also took a ride...
...Naiads. The biggest, noisiest and naughtiest contender in the new spystakes is The Silencers, with Crooner Dean Martin playing Matt Helm, a secret agent for ICE (Intelligence Counter Espionage). Its plot pits Helm against the mastermind of one of those atomic conspiracies, headquartered in what appears to be a sunken carrier under the desert near Alamogordo. But the real contest is between nudity and gadgetry. The striptease fun, with Cyd Charisse as team captain, begins during the opening credits, then gets right down to business in Martin's circular bed, which turns, travels, tilts, finally plunges him naked into...
...Elysée hands, De Gaulle himself looked sunken-eyed and tired, and atypically muffed some of the lines in his carefully memorized discourse. But as usual, le grand Charles contrived to have the last laugh. "Personal power?" he asked at conference's end, challenging critics who charge that he rules singlehandedly. Why, he said, he was constantly in touch from the top of the government right down to the grass roots, having seen "with his own eyes at least 15 million Frenchmen" in the past seven years. And besides, great men are sometimes too busy for everyday commingling...
Oldest & Cheapest. During World War II, Allied bombing clogged the waterways with 4,000 sunken vessels, 370,000 tons of twisted bridge steel, 14 million cubic feet of concrete and rubble. Since the war, Germany has spent more than $1 billion to clear away the debris, rebuild the fleet, deepen the rivers and improve the country's 65 inland ports. Reason for continued reliance on the Continent's oldest form of transportation: it is still the cheapest way to ship bulk freight. To move a metric ton of coal from Duisburg to Mannheim, for example, costs...