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Boiling a lobster is not a difficult kitchen feat, but it is usually mastered more easily if a bottle of smelling salts and/or a double dollop of gin are placed close at hand. According to ancient ritual, the beast must be plunged alive into a potful of boiling water; it invariably spends the better part of two minutes frantically trying to climb back out, and the cook needs a firm hand to keep the lid pressed down until it succumbs...
...great construction achievements in the development of Canada. The building of the Inch-by-lnch pipeline-driving a new road through the mountains, then blasting a 5-ft.-deep trench along the slopes, through swamps and under cascading rivers-may well rival the railroad as an engineering feat...
When millions of Americans watched the world's first network telecast of an atomic explosion, two months ago, the feat was made possible by a microwave apparatus, which relayed the image from Yucca Flat, Nev. to a transmitting station on the top of Mount Wilson 140 miles away. This week, when the new superliner United States spreads its cuisine before notables on its maiden voyage, the steaks will be cooked on a Radarange, which does the job electronically in half a minute. On the big ship's bridge are two Fathometers to sound the ocean's depth...
Submariners' Due. Submarine is packed with crackling descriptions of action. There is the feat of Commander Sam Dealey's Harder, which deliberately went out after the subs' greatest natural enemy, the destroyers, got five on one patrol, and came back to tell about it. There is an account of Commander J. K. Fyfe's Bat fish, which stalked enemy sub marines and sank three in four days. And there is the near-incredible last patrol of Commander Richard O'Kane's Tang, which sank eleven ships and was finally sent to the bottom...
...figuring out original and pleasantly complicated plots. Once you get by the first page or so of each story--during which you cannot imagine what the devil is going on--you find it quite exciting. And added to these stories are long and somewhat technical expositions on one feat or another of American scientists--in the May issue, the Brookhaven Atomic Plant is discussed...