Word: cons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ferrat on the French Riviera, a yellow and black checkerboard-patterned underwater house bobbed its round dome out of the water to the tooting of yacht whistles and the obvious satisfaction of Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau, the pioneering French underwater explorer who had commanded the three-week mission of Con Shelf III (for Continental Shelf) from a lighthouse on shore. Allowing him self a thoroughly Gallic "ooh la-la," Cousteau turned to his colleagues: "It was neat, wasn...
After descending significantly farther than their Sealab colleagues - living at a depth of 330 ft. and working even deeper - the six oceanauts of Con Shelf III had to remain in their two-story sphere four days after surfacing while the pressure in the cabin was slowly lowered. It was clear that Cousteau had reason to be elated. Never before had men survived so long at such depths. Moreover, they showed no signs of weakness or sickness, and had managed to do their assigned jobs efficiently...
...Con Shelf's most practical experiment turned out to be its most spectacular success. To check on man's ability to work underwater, divers went down more than 375 ft. to set up a 16-ft. "Christmas tree," a complex of valves and connecting pipes by which the output of an oil well is controlled. While French petroleum experts watched on closed-circuit TV, two divers manipulated their tools with little difficulty, proved that they could hook up and operate valves and clean tubes as well as anyone working on land. In one test, they accomplished...
...will take months to evaluate many of the scientific experiments of both Con Shelf and Sealab. As in the past, the men of Con Shelf will compare notes with the men of Sealab, setting an example of friendly scientific cooperation between nations...
...North of its An Khe base in the central highlands, a battalion of the 1st Cavalry Airmobile was helilifted into the "happy valley" of Song Con-ironically named because it is so Viet Cong-infested that until now every allied incursion has invariably drawn heavy gunfire. F-100s plastered the valley with 750-lb. bombs and napalm tanks before the 1st Cavalry landed, and rocket-artillery helicopters overhead covered their advance. When they hit a V.C. concrete bunker, the men of the 1st Cavalry slammed a wire-guided SS-11 missile designed for use against tanks into the bunker, knocked...