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Then Khrushchev returned and fired off an abrupt note informing the U.S. that a Soviet fighter plane had shot down the RB-47 near the Kola Peninsula, committing "a gross violation of the Soviet Union's frontier." A Soviet vessel, the note said, had rescued two of the six airmen, and the Soviet government was holding them for "trial under the full rigor of Soviet...
Deep under the china-blue Straits of Florida last week prowled a black and sinister shadow: the U.S. nuclear submarine Skate. Since Skate is almost as fast as any surface vessel and can dodge like a rabbit, the U.S. destroyer leader Norfolk had little chance of touching her with conventional antisub weapons. But on the Norfolk's afterdeck a clumsy-looking box swung like a gun turret. A section of it tilted, doors popped open, and with a screaming roar a slender rocket slanted upward, trailing a feather of flame. Near the top of the climb the engine section...
...orbit can be calculated far in advance, the almost-precise position of the ship receiving its signals can thereby be fixed. Last week a test of the system worked with extraordinary accuracy. Although the latest Transit lacked parts that will be ultimately carried, the Navy's tracking vessel, Observation Island, used the satellite's signals to determine its own position off Florida within less than a quarter of a mile...
...greatest find is a 1,000-ton Roman freighter owned by one Marcus Sestius, which sank in 140 ft. of water ten miles off Marseille about 205 B.C.-the oldest seagoing vessel ever found. It had a cargo of 10,000 amphorae filled with Greek and Roman wine, and a great store of black dinnerware of untold value to modern archaeologists...
...second munitions ship quickly cast off, was towed out of the danger area. Firemen worked close to the burning vessel. Then it exploded again, sending a shower of death through the crowd on the dock-and just missing Premier Castro, who had come whirling up in his helicopter to hover near the stricken ship. The initial counts put the dead at 75 to 100, the injured at more than...