Word: ballasting
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...syndicate of seven friends, called- Real Eight Co., Inc., took out a salvage search lease with the State of Florida (in return, the state gets 25% of their take). First underwater teams located, with the aid of magnetometers, two wreck sites, marked only by piles of the original ballast stones and cannon (the wood hulls had long since been eaten away). The teams shoved the 50-lb. stones aside and cleared away loose sand with a hydraulic blaster...
...Western calendar. Justice still decrees an eye for an eye. Marriages are arranged sight unseen. A few weeks ago the deputy rector of the Islamic University at Medina even came out in support of a 14th-century theory that the world is flat and mountains are only ballast to keep it from tipping over. But for all this, Saudi Arabia's old ideas and old ways are giving way to the 20th century. King Feisal ibn Abdul Aziz, 62, is not afraid to call it a revolution. "Revolutions," he says, "can come from a throne as well as from...
...What finally boated the bomb was CURV (for Cable-Controlled Underwater Research Vehicle), weirdest of all of Guest's gadgets. On a 15-ft. pipe base not unlike the landing gear of a small helicopter, CURV mounts four long red ballast tubes for depth control, three electric propulsion motors, lights, sonar, film and TV cameras. Controlled from the surface, it can clamp a detachable claw onto objects up to 3 ft. wide, then back away leaving the claw and a buoyed line attached. Though it is normally used to retrieve spent torpedoes, Guest acted on a hunch and ordered...
...test turned to Apollo coasting through space at 15,000 m.p.h. Inside the 24-ft. spacecraft and its service module was virtually everything that will go to the moon-except the three astronauts, their couches and the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM), for which ballast had been substituted. At an altitude of 310 miles, a programmer-filling in for the astronaut pilot-ordered the Apollo's own 22,900-lb.-thrust engine to head the craft back to earth, increase its speed, then separate the module just before reentry...
...recent years, however, year-round reading habits have changed. "People don't read many light books any more," says a Beverly Hills bookdealer. "These are not light times." Seasonal froth still abounds, but more vacationers nowadays tend to ballast their bags with classics or important current books. Main reason for the shift is that the heightened pressures of business, community and social life leave less and less opportunity for serious reading during the workaday year. Reading has become a game of guilt. Wrote Walter Kerr in The Decline of Pleasure: "We are all of us compelled to read...