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...planes and battleships is so much hogwash.") In last week's test runs, the Nautilus behaved as well as Rickover and his associates hoped it would. Afterwards an officer confidently reported: "Hell, we could have gone to Europe and back without coming up." The Nautilus is powered by steam turbines. The heat comes from a nuclear reactor with a small uranium core. The Nautilus can outrun any other sub (an estimated 28 knots) and dive deeper than any other (beyond 500 feet). Armed with torpedoes (she can also carry atomic missiles), the Nautilus is scheduled to enter active service...
When Winston Churchill accepted an invitation to speak at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1949, a Harvardman asked John Ely Burchard, now M.I.T.'s dean of humanities and social studies: "How did you persuade Winston to speak to those steam fitters of yours?" As Burchard well knew, there was a mite of truth in the joke, in spite of mighty efforts already made to broaden the humanities curriculum. Was the nation's top technical school still giving its students too narrow an education? Last week the M.I.T. faculty formally approved a new experiment that may eventually answer...
...million Boston & Maine Railroad within two years, says this will give New England the benefits of greater economy and better service. Most New Englanders are against the move, including Massachusetts' Governor Christian Herter. But after a meeting with the Governor, McGinnis said flatly that he still intends to steam full-speed ahead. He and his friends have already bought 350,000 shares of B. & M. stock, now own 42.5%. If that is not enough, said McGinnis, "we are willing to put in more money to get control...
...secede from the Union, and issue currency. Secretary Dulles will coin a phrase, "passive retaliation," and President Eisenhower will express displeasure but will hope, over four networks, that it was just a mistake. Meanwhile, closer to home, Kirkland House will lose all 16 of its maids in a steam tunnel...
...University will institute 8 o'clock classes as part of the new program of advanced standing. ("it's the early bird. . ." the administration spokesman will say.') After some outspoken words in the University Gazette, William Bentinck-Smith, special assistant to the President, will lead an expedition into the steam tunnels to find the lost Kirkland House maids. Dr. Norman Vincent Peale will move to California for missionary work, thereby quashing rumors that he was to be new dean of the Divinity School...