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...went off to meet Nikita Khrushchev in 1961, John Kennedy read every speech of Khrushchev's that had been recorded in the West. In case the Soviet leader tried to mislead him, Kennedy wanted to remind Khrushchev of his earlier statements. J.F.K. took a model of the warship U.S.S. Constitution, which was launched in 1797, to try to drive home the point that in previous centuries warfare touched few people while today it could obliterate whole societies. Kennedy found himself studying Khrushchev's clothes, his pudgy hands, his abrupt movements, his moments of insecurity followed by explosive laughter...
...venerable warship once again sees daylight
...wreck of the Mary Rose moldered for 437 years in the chilly waters of the Solent, as the nautical avenue between the Isle of Wight and Portsmouth is called. Time and tide did their work: after centuries of erosion, only the starboard half of the warship's timbers remained intact in their silt-laden grave. But those blackened beams were more than enough last week to provide yet another spectacle for royal eyes. Under the anxious gaze of Prince Charles and thousands of ordinary Britons, the remains of the Mary Rose emerged from the Solent in the embrace...
More salvage work remains to be done. In lifting the bulk of the Mary Rose's remains, a 6-ft. section of the warship's bow was deliberately severed as a safety precaution. After the sections are rejoined, the painstaking work of finally preserving the Mary Rose could take several years. Nonetheless, the rescuers of the Mary Rose hope that their precious find can go on display as early as next year in Portsmouth, at a drydock close to Lord Nelson's famous flagship H.M.S. Victory. Says Discoverer McKee: "This is a dream come true." - By George...
...hulking, gray floating village of some 1,200 souls, the British carrier Invincible returns to Portsmouth, England, this week. It will be 166 days since it first set out for the Falkland Islands-the longest continuous tour at sea of any British warship since the days of sail-and among those eager to join family and friends will be a helicopter pilot named Prince Andrew Albert Christian Edward, 22, a veteran of numerous dicey adventures during the conflict. "I was airborne at the time the Atlantic Conveyor was hit," he recalls. "I saw it being struck by the missile...