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...Caine Mutiny, Novelist Herman Wouk (Aurora Dawn, The City Boy) has tackled a problem of considerably greater moment than those confronted by the personal-gripe, crushed-sensitive-youth school of U.S. war novelists (Norman Mailer, James Jones). What, he asks in effect, is of first consequence: the sprinkling of nasty little Queegs and the irritations suffered by their subordinates, or the good sense and steady drive of the Willie Keiths in the face of pressures they had never expected to meet...
...follow directly. Shortly after 3 a.m. the Barb went in. It was a submariner's dream: some 30 ships lined up like pins in an alley. Eight torpedoes hit six of them, including two ammunition ships, and turned the harbor into "a wholesale fireworks display with the aurora borealis and a couple of sunsets to boot." An hour later, Skipper Fluckey noted in his log: "Crossed the 20 fathom curve with a sigh ... However, life begins at 40 fathoms...
...flag-raising ceremony. They chanted "U.N. is un-American," wagged U.S. flags in the faces of sheepish councilmen. The Chicago Tribune discovered a lady sewing on a U.N. flag, and the anti-U.N. fervor swept Tribune-land. Illinois V.F.W. and American Legion posts passed resolutions. The Aurora city council banned the U.N. flag from public buildings because "Russian Communists remain in the United Nations." In Highland Park, the local D.A.R. insisted that the U.N. flag come down. It did. The Parent-Teacher Association insisted it go back up. Town officials asked the Army at Fort Sheridan for guidance...
...large area of the sky. Last month, when the sun was nicely spotted in the right places, he got his apparatus ready and pointed it in the direction from which he expected the hydrogen particles to come. Nicely on schedule, the night sky lit up with an "extreme aurora...
Over the 37 miles from Chicago to Aurora, Ill., the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad hauls some 15,000 commuters a day. Some cars are half a century old, draughty in winter, hot and sooty in summer. Last week the Burlington served up a pleasant surprise: it rolled out three new stainless steel, 148-passenger, double-decker cars, the first of 30 being built by Philadelphia's Budd Co. at a cost of $152,000 each. With them, and 70 modernized conventional cars, the Burlington hopes to wean many a new customer from the highways, put its money-losing commuting...