For eleven days the grave-faced master of the Italian Line's Andrea Doria waited while the young third mate of the Swedish-American Line's Stockholm told a story in a Manhattan courtroom that implied that the Italians were to blame for the July collision that sank Andrea Doria (TIME, Oct. 8). Last week came turn for Captain Piero Calamai, 58, to take the stand, and his anxiety still showed as he sat with bent shoulders, pale and tired-looking.
On fatal July 25 Andrea Doria was steaming westbound at 23 knots from Genoa to New York when, about 3 p.m., some 175 miles...
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