Word: tritons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unfettered fancy of Jules Verne never conjured up such a monstrous metallic whale. Verne's fictional Naiitilus, 232 ft. long, could have nestled snugly in the belly of Triton, the eighth nuclear-powered submarine to join the U.S. fleet, scheduled for launching this week in the Thames River at Groton, Conn...
...surrounded by signs of the Navy's growing nuclear potential. At the General Dynamics Electric Boat Division, the Navy launched Skipjack, the U.S.'s fifth nuclear submarine, a $60 million model with a special shark shape designed for high-speed underwater maneuverability. Abuilding on the ways was Triton, a giant-sized double-reactor, radar-picket submarine, biggest submarine ever built. Beyond that the Navy last week laid the keel of its third nuclear submarine designed specifically for mating in 1959-60 to the much-talked-about Polaris solid-charge missile (TIME, March...
...Kuiper thinks that Pluto is an escaped satellite that once revolved around Neptune. The other satellites of Neptune, Triton and Nereid, may have escaped too, but eventually were recaptured. They tangled with the gaseous envelope that still surrounded the mother planet and were reduced again to the satellite status. Pluto, however, managed to keep its freedom until the sun had dissipated most of Neptune's gaseous envelope. Now it is probably safe for the life of the solar system...
Carter Van Waes of Cambridge, retiring president of the University's Mu Triton chapter, and incoming president Robert D. Shanley of Boston said in a joint statement the chapter had been suspended for accepting Robert Thomas of Atlanta, Ga., a liberal arts sophomore...
Flashing neon lights surround Bernini's 17th century Triton fountain. A "surgical incision" in the side of a spandy new apartment house preserves an antique pillar. The Forum, "that lovely lake of time," is lit up at night like a model house. "The place is crawling with wires." Yet despite all this "enormity of the specific"-or perhaps directly through it-Rome makes its power felt in the beholder. "The city has its own language in time, its own vocabulary for the eye, for which nothing else was any preparation ... It is ... a vast untidiness peopled with characters...