Word: ancients
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Beyond Reach. Even if these scanty signals are picked up somewhere along a sub's disaster course (Scorpion's: 2,500 miles long by 50 miles wide), the device the Navy relies upon to rescue deep-sixed submariners is ancient and inadequate: the McCann rescue chamber, an "undersea elevator" that can remove only eight men at a time from subs in 850 ft. of water or less. Devised in the 1920s, it was last used in an actual undersea rescue when Squalus went down off Portsmouth, N.H., in 1939.* Development of a "Deep-Submergence Rescue Vehicle," begun...
...Western civilization grace their drab and grimy streets. Instead, the stigmata of the worst of the 20th century abound: the sprawl of brick factories, the grey, faceless slabs of low-income housing projects. All day big diesel trucks thunder up and down belching fumes, their oversize tires slapping the ancient cobblestones. This is the Red Belt of Paris, so called because most of its towns have Communist mayors. It is here that the Parisian worker lives and plies his trade...
...present phenomenon of polling arises from the politicians' ancient need to know what the public thinks. Finding out was easy in the days when strong party machines relayed the information. Today, the weakening of political allegiances has disrupted communications. Polls have partly bridged...
...three-minute intervals, young Ibo tribesmen dressed in clean white shirts and ties slapped "Anti-Panic Squad" signs on their cars and drove through the streets shouting for calm. Unpersuaded, civilians scooped up their children and whatever possessions they could carry and-on foot, by bicycle or riding in ancient automobiles or mammy wagons-swarmed into the main road leading to the northern town of Owerri, 45 miles away. Within a few hours after the shelling began, traffic was backed up 15 miles...
...Hunts, Ancient and Modern