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Throughout the week a small army of engineers, painters, technicians and nuclear physicists worked on the sleek, white-hulled ship lying in her slip at Camden, N.J. Early next month the N.S. (for nuclear ship) Savannah* the world's first atomic-powered merchant ship, will go to Yorktown, Va., for dockside tests, then head out into the Atlantic for sea trials. Said Dr. Marvin M. Mann, project manager of the ship's nuclear power plant: "For all practical purposes, the Savannah is completed...
...college students whose unpredictability can add suspense to the re-creation of the past. At one amphitheater, the general manager once discovered minutes before curtain time that a corps of miffed undergraduates, dressed in red coats and demoralized by nightly defeat, were planning to win the Battle of Yorktown. Only a threat that they would not be paid persuaded them to take the usual dive...
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Nobody will ever know who really started it. It may well have been an obscure vaudeville comedian, after Appomattox or after Yorktown, who first used the joke during a desperate split week in Manchester or Dublin. The joke involved someone's trying to rent a cottage with a W.C. (water closet) and being misunderstood by someone else who thought that by some tortured leap of the jokemaker's imagination the letters stood for Wayside Chapel. Thus, the W.C. was nine miles from the house, could be visited only twice a week, etc. - endless possibilities. Little could the unsung...
...Hiryu! With only 18 dive bombers and six Zeros, Rear Admiral Tamon Yamaguchi of the sole surviving carrier, Hiryu, put in a sudden, sharp attack against Yorktown, losing almost all of his aircraft but scoring three hits and starting fires. At 1245 Yamaguchi threw in his last ten torpedo bombers and six fighters, remnant of Nagumo's force of 250 plus, led by a lieutenant who knew he had only enough fuel for a one-way trip. The result: slaughter for the Japanese planes by U.S. fighters and antiaircraft, but two torpedo hits on Yorktown, enough to cripple...