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From somewhere southeast of Greenland came the crackle of an urgent radio message: "Being fired on by Orange surface raider. Inchcliffe Castle." With that alert from a famed but fictitious merchant vessel,* simulated hell broke loose in the North Atlantic. Out to punish the "aggressors," a six-nation Blue fleet totaling nearly 160 fighting ships began steaming toward Norway. In the Iceland-Faeroes gap, 36 Orange submarines, including the atom-powered 'Nautilus, lay in wait. The U.S. destroyer Charles R. Ware was "sunk"; a "torpedo" slowed down the carrier U.S.S. Intrepid, and H.M.S. Ark Royal had a hot time...
...captured the ship for the 13 states. Couple of days later the heroes were themselves chased, caught and captured, not by the British but by the armed brig Convention, in the service of Pennsylvania. They were hauled into the port of Philadelphia, where the admiralty court ordered the vessel sold and the prize money divided one-half to the Pennsylvania seamen, one-fourth to the Pennsylvania treasury and only one-fourth to Gideon Olmstead and friends. During the next 30 years one federal court after another ordered Pennsylvania to hand over the Active prize money to Olmstead, but the state...
...taking control in China, the British frigate H.M.S. Amethyst steamed up the Yangtze, bound for Nanking, to bring supplies to Britain's embassy. The Chinese Communist army, deployed on the Yangtze's north bank and preparing to make many crossings, opened up on the Amethyst, clobbered the vessel without provocation, nearly sank her before she ran aground. This all happened before Korea, but what followed was a good clue to the Chinese Communists' knack for flitting without pause from atrocious war fare to attritious negotiation - a harbinger of Panmunjom and the 24-month palavering that, even...
...cunning Red warlord, shows up as a negotiator and puts on a dazzling display of inscrutability. The months wear on, and Lieut. Commander Todd begins to understand the superiority of spit to polish. At last, with the courage of a heart made whole, Todd runs the battered vessel past artillery-lined riverbanks on a wild, 140-mile nighttime dash to sea. It is all history now, but the capable direction of Michael (Around the World in 80 Days) Anderson has made it happen again believably...
...sperm whales, try to listen to them, will you?" These were about the last words heard by the crew of the research vessel Atlantis before casting off last spring from the Woods Hole (Mass.) Oceanographic Institution on a voyage to trace currents in the Atlantic. They were shouted at dockside by tall (6 ft. 1 in.), intense Harvard Zoologist William Edward Schevill...