Word: crafting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Even with the new law, U.S. fishermen have far to go before catching up with the foreign fleets. We spotted only four U.S. trawlers, all dwarfed in size and efficiency by the Soviet craft. The U.S. industry is made up mostly of small, family-owned trawlers, while foreign vessels are either government-owned or heavily subsidized. Supported by factory ships to process the catch and refrigerated transports to take it home. Soviet trawlers can stay on the fishing grounds for as long as six months, limited only by the new regulations from outfishing any American boats afloat...
Ground controllers will then begin navigating the craft into closer and closer orbits of the sun by properly trimming the sail. Then they can put the ship-moving at a top speed of 198,000 kilometers (124,000 miles) an hour-on a course to intercept Halley's comet in March 1986. Jettisoning the sail, and "flying station" just two kilometers above the comet's head, the ship will take TV pictures and readings to determine the visitor's composition and origin. Says J.P.L.'s Murray: "We don't have a clue about comets...
...ions produced when a beam of electrons (generated by electric current from solar cells) is sent through vaporized mercury. Such a low-thrust ion engine could, like the sunjammer's sail, maneuver a ship to a rendezvous with the comet. NASA is scheduled to decide next August which craft, if either, will make the mission. Until it decides, there will be fierce but friendly competition at J.P.L., where employees last week identified their allegiance by wearing buttons reading either TRUCKING WITH ION DRIVE or I'M A SOLAR SAILOR...
...coupled craft lifted to 16,000 ft., banked both left and right at 300 m.p.h. to test the ability of the 747 to carry its historic passenger in a stable fashion. At 10,000 ft., Pilot Fulton ran through other tests, including shutting off one engine and lowering the landing gear. Fulton's only unusual sensation was "a slight buffeting" caused by the bird perched on his plane's back. The touch down looked every bit as smooth as a commercial 747 landing at New York's J.F.K. Airport...
Among the practitioners of his craft, Frank Chin, 48, was a pro. He had been one of the most sought-after "wiremen," or electronic eavesdroppers, in the East, supplying bugging and recording devices to clients on both sides of the law. But on Jan. 20 Chin's tape ran out. He was found crumpled in a hallway near his West Side Manhattan workshop with six bullet holes in his head...