Word: decks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tugs belonging to San Francisco's Crowley Maritime Corp. is towing two barges. The loads are the heaviest and tallest ever. From a distance, the grumbling 136-ft.-long tugs look as if they are pulling an entire city across the top of the world. Welded to the deck of one of the barges is a ten-story-high compressor building that will be used to help reinject gas beneath the ground. It looks like a modest cathedral and is trailed by a second barge carrying a fully assembled drilling complex that will house a web of pipes rising...
...Commander in Chief allowed that it would "be a kick" to fly in an F-14 jet fighter, though he did not insist on going for a ride. He jokingly ordered the flight boss to "tighten up the interval" of the planes hurtling every few seconds off the deck. He stayed chipper through a precision bombing run that nearly jolted him out of his white-draped deck chair. Addressing the Constellation's 5,000 officers and crew later, Reagan reaffirmed his pledge of "a 600-ship Navy, a Navy that is big enough to deter aggression wherever it might...
...dining room that seats 40. There is a crack crew of 254 Royal Navy sailors (two-thirds of whom sign on for their entire service careers) and 22 officers, including a rear admiral at the helm. In deference to their royal - and romantic - passengers, orders on the upper deck will be executed whenever possible without spoken commands...
...short spin, Britannia carries her own miniflotilla. Included are a 40-ft. barge, two 35-ft. speedboats, a motor cutter, two 16-ft. fast-motor dinghies, two 14-ft. sailing dinghies and a number of lifeboats-one big enough to carry a Land Rover. The yacht's sun deck can double as a landing pad for helicopters and her hold can carry two Rolls-Royces...
Choreographer Johanna Boyce needed an Olympic-size pool to stage, or float, her commissioned piece Waterbodies. Five harps were moved to the pool deck at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, the nearest suitable pool, to play Jack Eric Williams' score. A backdrop screen showed footage of underwater escapades while Vermont-raised Boyce and her nine mostly nonprofessional performers splashed, sang, burbled, slithered and dived de deux. Far from synchronized swimming, Waterbodies explored movement with the playful exuberance of a midnight swim...