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...back we tried to get a look at the East German parliament's office building in Pankow but couldn't get with in a hundred yards of the place. The road was barricaded, and a squad of Russian-uniformed Volkspolisel stood there armed with sub-machine guns...
Sailors in orange life preservers over foul-weather gear bustled through the routine tasks of taking a sub to sea at Groton, Conn, one morning last week. When the Nautilus had quietly backed into the Thames River, made a smooth 180° turn and started pushing its massive, whalelike snout south toward Long Island Sound, the abovedeck crew relaxed and waved to the workers lining the docks. At n a.m. on Jan. 17, the Nautilus' blinker snapped out a historic message: "Under way on nuclear power." The crew-and more than 60 special officers and civilians-were quietly jubilant...
...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 with the Atlantic Fleet in just six weeks...
...sub campaign would be effective without the Russians, and if they go that far massive retaliation is in order...
...welcome the world's No. 1 international bureaucrat. On the way to Peking by plane, Hammarskjold paused at Hankow to meet, of all people, his nephew Peder Hammarskjold, chargé d'affaires at the Swedish embassy to Red China.* He arrived in the Chinese capital in sub-zero weather...