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...state of the U.S. Navy's antisubmarine defenses. Reason: secret CIA estimates of the Soviet Union's ability to attack U.S. cities with submarine-launched nuclear missiles, secret suspicions that the Navy has been spending too much money on spectacular aircraft-carrier plans, too little on undersea and antisubmarine warfare. High on the committee's list of possible recommendations: a change of the Pentagon's present Joint Chiefs of Staff system to something akin to a Defense Department planning staff recommended by Dr. Vannevar Bush, wartime director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development...
ATOMIC SUBMARINE tanker is on the drawing boards of Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy-Industries Ltd. Nuclear-powered undersea craft will do 22 knots, carry 30,000 tons of oil, measure 540 ft. by 69 ft., to dwarf the first U.S. atom sub Nautilus. Snorkel craft will be able to stay submerged for a month straight, safe from turbulent storms. Cost: about twice as much as conventional tanker of same size...
...helped add eight years to life expectancy in the U.S. (from 62 to 70 at birth) since 1941, boosted population. At the same time, to the discomfiture of Malthusians, new fertilizers, insecticides and other chemicals have helped pile up the greatest food surpluses ever. Man has learned to cruise undersea on nuclear power, fly at supersonic speeds; research has trebled the number of metals used by industry, made diamonds from common carbon (see cut), and conjured up thousands of new products...
...Soviet navy (which apparently still has no atom subs) SSGN 587 was only the latest of a series of unpleasant undersea developments. Fortnight ago the Mare Island yards began work on Sargo, the U.S. Navy's fifth nuclear-powered submarine, and the first to be built on the West Coast. Shorter (257 ft.) and lighter (2,300 tons displacement) than Nautilus, Sargo will combine Nautilus' endurance with greater speed and maneuverability, and when she is commissioned in 1958, she should be the world's most effective submarine. Sargo's pre-eminence promises to be short-lived...
...BIGGEST UNDERSEA PIPELINE will be built along the Gulf Coast to gather oil from offshore fields. A syndicate of Texas oilmen have formed a new company called Offshore Gathering Corp., plan to spend $150 million for a 364-mile oil and gas line running 25 miles offshore (at a depth of 60 ft.) between Texas and Mississippi. If FPC approves, work will start next year...