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DIED. John Williams, 80, tall (6 ft. 2 in.), ever-so-straight, mustachioed British-born actor who inevitably played the impeccable Englishman (with just an arched-eyebrow hint of pompousness) in a career of more than 50 years; of a ruptured blood vessel; in La Jolla, Calif. His most famous role was the somewhat distracted, tenacious police inspector in both the stage and film productions of Dial M for Murder...
...Kelly, at the helm of the carrier U.S.S. Enterprise and a mere 1,700 yds. from voyage's end in San Francisco Bay, felt what he called "a very deep feeling in the pit of my stomach." His 1,123-ft.-long, 75,700-ton nuclear-powered vessel had veered out of its 42-ft.-deep channel and slid to a stop in 29 ft. of water...
...carrier or pulled with tow lines, but the Enterprise did not move. In a maneuver akin to righting an unbalanced rowboat, the ship's crew was ordered to assemble on the carrier's port side. Their combined weight, coupled with the shifting of water in the vessel's ballast tanks, was meant to tip the ship in hopes of freeing it. But the keel, which normally requires 36 ft. of water for safe clearance, remained stuck. Only with the help of the outgoing tide did the Enterprise finally break loose from its unwanted mooring and finish...
...long, carry a crew of two to five and are propelled in some cases by treads, in others by conventional screws. One small sub, the commission said, navigated the shallow channel into Stockholm's harbor during a visit by the U.S. fleet last September. The vessel came within one mile of King Carl XVI Gustaf's palace on an island in the center of the capital (see map). The Swedish navy also attributes the failure of the October search to the minisubs. "Sonar didn't work where they were concerned," says Vice Admiral Bror Stefenson. "If they...
...Swedish claims were bolstered when Norway announced that a naval frigate had fired a missile at a suspicious submarine, also believed to be Soviet, near its main naval base northwest of Oslo. Three ships, two submarines and a flock of aircraft joined in a hunt for the vessel, but at week's end it seemed to have disappeared in Norway's rocky fjords...