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Early one February morning in 1943, the U.S. troop transport Dorchester was wallowing through icy seas off Greenland. Most of the 900 troops on board were asleep in their bunks. Suddenly a torpedo smashed into the Dorchester's thin flank. Frantically pounding up the ladders, the troops milled in confusion on the unfamiliar decks...
...Guided Missile." The success of this test was a revolutionary development in naval warfare. Subsequent scenes show detailed launchings of smaller 'Loon' and 'Dragonfly' rockets from land platforms, along with the radio and radar equipment that controls them. Navy scientists also demonstrate the weird acrobatics of a radio-controlled torpedo plane landing with hatch drawn back, exposing the empty cockpit. When these documentary scenes predominate, as they do in the first half of the picture, "Guided Missile" is interesting and dramatic...
Inishmurray is a 100-acre sliver of rock off the northwest coast of Ireland's County Sligo. In World War I, a British destroyer mistook its low-lying shape for a German submarine, let fly with a torpedo. The explosion shook the island up a bit but it failed to deflect the inhabitants from the pursuit of customs stemming back to the time of Saint Columba, who is said to have stopped off at Inishmurray on his way to convert Scotland to Christianity...
...worked up to boss of Fisher Body and Buick-Oldsmobile-Pontiac assembly plants. During World War II he headed G.M.'s Eastern Aircraft Division, whose plants at Linden and Trenton, N.J. were the only U.S. auto factories to convert to the production of complete airplanes (Grumman fighters and torpedo bombers...
Voters apparently wanted a harder hand laid on Communists. That was not true in Connecticut, which Senator Joe McCarthy invaded, shouting his charges against the State Department, in an unsuccessful effort to torpedo Brien McMahon and William Benton. But south and west, where voters may have discounted a good part of what McCarthy said, they nevertheless decided that where there was so much smoke there must be some fire. (The Democrats had argued that so much smoke only indicated an arsonist.) In California, victorious Senator Richard Nixon, who had routed the Democrats' left-leaning Helen Gahagan Douglas, confidently announced...