Word: brutes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...five-year span, his converted minesweeper Calypso pursued sharks in the waters of the Middle East. For half a year, Cousteau's crew was aswirl in terrifying hammerheads, blue whalers and tiger, shovelnose and white-tipped sharks-"by whatever name," the narrator said of the breed, "a fearsome brute, a perfect killing machine." But Cousteau's red-capped divers fearlessly ran off experiments right in their menacing midst. One crewman rode the back of a 60-ton whale shark. Others worked in pairs, back to back, each carrying a shark billy to fend off attackers on all flanks...
Paul sees no warrant for assuming, as his son does, that "the universe starts from some particular point and moves in a definite direction, or that man is contributing to that movement." The universe, he says, is the brute force of nature. "It has no direction or purpose. Direction and purpose derive from men who reflect upon what they have been doing and what they want to attain...
Floridian "Chappie" Chapman, 54, was the dark horse choice between two other, better-known lieutenant generals, both also 54: popular, barrel-chested Lewis Walt and acerbic, shrimp-sized (5 ft. 4 in., 134 Ibs.) Victor H. ("Brute") Krulak. Walt and Krulak have vastly more combat experience than Chapman and both are experts on Viet Nam. Both are also controversial. Waltwhom the President last week named assistant commandant-has been criticized, unjustly, for not being aggressive enough during his two years as the Marine commander in Viet Nam. Krulak, a favorite of Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and President Kennedy...
...inserted itself, the attached Apollo spacecraft, its service module and the lunar module-a total of 140 tons-into orbit, with an apogee of 119 miles, a perigee of 114 miles. It was an impressive demonstration that, after ten years, the U.S. had finally overtaken and surpassed Russia in brute rocket power. The heaviest loads ever orbited by the Soviets were the 13-ton Protons...
...Neapolitan city girl like Sophia Loren, 32, understandably gets the willies around wild animals-and this lit tle gathering included a bear, lion, tiger, leopard, ocelot, and a great dark brute dancing a tango. That would be Marcello Mastroianni, 42, Sophia's co-star (with Peter Sellers and Jonathan Winters) in Sophia's first musical, an ABC special called With Love...From Sophia, which will be shown on TV next month. No hoofer, Sophia rehearsed for weeks before taking on Marcello, who danced in a 1966 Italian stage musical. "I'm not Margot," she conceded after taping...