Word: towers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shorter by 50 feet than the lean, 310-foot fleet "boats" of World War II, the new Tang-class subs looked like a cross between a whale and a shark. Gone was the familiar deck gun and the round conning tower, with its crest of periscopes, radar and radio masts. The decks of the new subs were clean and knife-narrow. Down the center reared a thick, sliced-off fin to house their twelve masts and the snorkel, which will enable them to run on engines instead of batteries at periscope depth. They had bow planes that whipped out automatically...
...radio at the Denver tower crackled into life. Captain Appleby was south of Cheyenne, Wyo. at 8,500 feet and letting down to land at Denver. That was all anyone ever heard from him. Twelve hours later, search planes spotted the still-smoldering wreckage splattered along the slopes of 10,500-foot Crystal Mountain near Fort Collins, Colo. The DC-6, some 40 miles off its course, had glided into the mountain side at the 8,600-foot level, furrowed a 50-foot-wide path through the pines, skipped a ravine and disintegrated in a burst of flame half...
...spent seven weeks in Austria, where she also saw Russian soldiers jeeping about Vienna, and made at least one trip a day to sample the art of fine pastry cooks. She also traveled around Italy and France, "did all the things tourists usually do-went up the Eiffel Tower, visited the Colosseum and catacombs, rode along the Appian Way." Her favorite spots: the book stalls along the Seine in Paris...
...Accra, a faulty magneto on the right inboard engine had been repaired. Three and a half hours and nearly 700 miles later, flying through a drizzly night, the plane approached Roberts Field near the Liberian capital of Monrovia. Veteran Pilot Frank Crawford, 38, asked for landing instructions from the tower. He reported trouble with the radio beam on which he was flying-the stronger beacon at Dakar, 762 miles away in French West Africa, seemed to be interfering with local signals. After that, silence...
...official action. Example: after the war, he wrote two long series exposing Army waste in Georgia that resulted in two congressional investigations, got the practices stopped. Six months ago, Journalist Collins, 34, got a new job as Journal editorial writer and columnist. Instead of retiring into an ivory tower, he went right on crusading, though often in such minor-and popular -causes as the lack of courtesy among bus drivers. This spring, Bob Collins turned his fire on a bigger target...