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...naval heroes of World War I (only holder of two Medaglie d'Oro, highest Italian war decoration); of a lung ailment; in Rome. In December 1917, Rizzo and a small commando force sneaked into Trieste's harbor, cut the torpedo nets, then returned with small boats to sink Austria's battleship Wien, next year equaled the feat by torpedoing the Szent-Istvan...
...Hard to Sink. The United States narrowly missed being finished as a troopship. Only a change of heart by the Defense Department last fall (TIME, Nov. 13) allowed her to be fitted out as a civilian luxury liner. But Naval Architect William Francis Gibbs, who devised the mass-production method of building the Liberty ships, planned the United States so that she can be converted in a short time to carry 14,000 troops. Below decks the United States has the same watertight compartments which make Navy ships hard to sink. To keep the ship fireproof, no wood has been...
...While eyelids sink...
...stand close together, flapping their flippers wildly, twining their necks and "trumpeting" loudly, while juvenile penguins gather around to watch the ceremony. Among mammals or less seemly birds, such behavior might lead forthwith to sexual intercourse. But not among the penguins. After the extensive ceremonies of courtship, both birds sink down exhausted, as if the demands of the preliminaries had drained their strength...
...Effort. In Tonawanda, N.Y., a pheasant smashed through a kitchen window in full flight, struck the faucet in the sink and turned on the water, plugged the drain with its body, began to drown, was saved by two boys who happened...