Word: compasses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bulgy badge of the postwar economic miracle, nutritionists warn direly that 78% of all citizens are still overweight and some 70,000 a year die prematurely of diabetes, coronaries, and other ailments accentuated by overeating. Three slenderizing volumes by diet expert Ulrich Klever of Bavaria−Calorie Compass, Protein-Plus Diet and Everything That Makes You Slim−have sold nearly 500,000 copies, while sales of the Brigitte Diet Club book have reached 750,000 copies in four years...
...WANING light of the imperial sun the great Kublai Khan listens to the words of a young explorer from Venice. The Khan's dominions have grown in scope and compass out of understanding, their diverse, unimagined wonders lost in last formlessness. As Marco Polo describes the fantastic cities he has visited in his wanderings, his words are a dam against despair. The emperor hopes to discern in them, "through the walls and towers destined to crumble, the tracery of a pattern so subtle it could escape the termites' gnawing...
...great Yankee skipper Joshua Slocum used only the simplest of navigational instruments-a compass, a sextant and his famous "dollar clock"-when he sailed his 37-ft. Spray round the world alone from 1895 to 1898. The solitary skipper of a spanking new sloop called the Oxy will find his life at sea far easier than Slocum's when he sails in a singlehanded race across the Atlantic next year. If he wants to relax and leave the helm, all he will have to do is flip a switch on an electronic self-steering device; day or night...
...hazards in the area. "It has been our experience," the Coast Guard says, "that the combined forces of nature and unpredictability of mankind outdo even the most farfetched science fiction many times each year." The handout notes that the triangle is one of two places where magnetic compasses point to true north-and thus may be confusing to navigators who are not used to compass variations...
...development and further nuclear blasting on the Rockies' western slopes in an effort to extract natural gas. But Lamm, a leader of the successful drive to keep the Winter Olympics out of the state, had already made the environmental issue his own. "I have a compass in my head, and Vanderhoof has a very fine scale," says Lamm. "Generally the scales win in politics, but not here...