Word: decking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last, Lacy pushes the red button-and holds it down. A console lights up: "Captain's permission to fire." The weapons officer, Lieut. Commander Russell McWey, shouts "Fire One." The ship's fire control supervisor presses his own "fire" button. A five-ton steel hatch opens on deck, and a burst of compressed air ejects a 15-ton, 30-ft. Polaris A-2 missile. Skyward from beneath the sea's surface, the missile hurtles toward its target...
...dream is triggered by some incident of the day, a Goodman painting may stem from the most humdrum of sights, which he transforms into an image that seems to have endless ramifications and is always in part a mystery. Once Goodman noticed two people sunning themselves on the deck of a ship; these became two eerie figures in ghostly robes lying in a landscape that appears to have no beginning and no end, and what is commonplace thus takes on the aura of being cosmic...
Readings on the two infra-red wave lengths were essentially identical. This could be interpreted to mean that there were no breaks in the Venusian clouds and that the infra-red waves came from a high, opaque cloud deck. The amount of carbon dioxide above this deck was too small to be detected...
Infra-red readings also showed the temperature on top of the cloud deck to be about -30° F. It varied little over the planet except in one spot at the southern end of the boundary between light and dark, where it fell to about -50° F. No one is sure what this means. Perhaps the clouds are higher or more opaque at this point. Perhaps a surface feature, such as a high mountain, forces them upward...
...Some 50 newsmen, photographers and government officials crowded the dock at Pôrto de Santana, a steamy little town on the north channel of Brazil's Amazon delta. Then up the river it came: Venezuela's hijacked freighter Anzoátegui (TIME, Feb. 22). On the deck stood a triumphant Wismar Medina Rojas, 28, and his eight fellow hijackers-all members of Venezuela's Castroite Armed Forces of National Liberation...