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President Dwight Eisenhower in 1955 asked Congress for money for a nuclear-powered merchant vessel, partly for the technological payoff, partly to impress on the world U.S. interest in the peaceful atom. The 22,000-ton Savannah now stands the taxpayers nearly $47 million-about 50% more than a similar-sized, conventional ship. She will be able to cruise 300,000 nautical miles on a single fueling of her reactor. At first, the Savannah will be operated by the Maritime Administration as a sort of atomic-age tramp steamer, carrying up to 60 passengers and 10,000 tons of cargo...
After one week the diggers literally struck gold. They brought up a pouring vessel heavily inlaid with carved golden animals. One of the creatures has a human body, with a bird's wings and two animal heads. In its outstretched arms it holds two winged lions. On another part of the vessel a golden lion attacks a golden deer, Dr. Negahban suspects that these symbols are religious...
Item 9 says, "If you should be rescued by a passing vessel, you would spend a life of remorse mourning over your lost loved ones." Does the Committee really believe that it is better to die than to live in sadness? Does it believe that it is better to destroy our people, and along with them our beliefs and ideals, than to try to save part of the nation we have worked so long to build? It is impossible to take such a viewpoint seriously...
Down the ways of a Kiel shipyard last week slid a pocket-sized new version of World War II's most awesome vessel: West Germany's first postwar submarine. Christened the U-1, it is the first of twelve such subs that will become part of the West German navy by 1963 to guard the Baltic approaches. Diesel-powered and snorkel-equipped, the U-1 can run submerged for prolonged periods; its teardrop shape gives it an underwater speed equal to the fastest World War II submarines. Carrying a crew...
...should be rescued by a passing vessel, you would spend a life of remorse mourning over your lost loved ones...