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...presidential exhortation was enough to hold back a wave of labor unrest that swept the country last week. Most serious was the walkout of longshoremen on the East and Gulf coasts, which, together with the three-month-old strike of West Coast dockers, closed down virtually all U.S. deep-sea ports for the first time in history. In addition, a strike of miners brought practically all soft coal production to a halt. And the possibility of a crippling work stoppage hung over the nation's railroads. The disruptions are both a rebuke and a challenge by labor to President...
Ostensibly to protect its deep-sea fishery from the depredations of foreign commercial fleets, Ecuador claims that its territorial waters extend 200 miles offshore-something of a stretch beyond the usual twelve-mile limit. Yanqni tuna fishermen have "intruded" regularly over the years, sometimes paying the Ecuadoreans a license fee, sometimes not. Without a license, the American boats run the risk of seizure by the Ecuadorean navy. (More than half of Ecuador's 21 ships, as it happens, were supplied by the U.S.) Lately the Ecuadoreans have been getting more aggressive: since Jan. 11 they have seized...
...Tamplin unleashed their polemic. One evidence of this is the proliferation of conservationist lawsuits attempting to block construction of nuclear plants in the U.S. Similar concern has also nearly turned under the AEC's Project Plowshare, which proposes to use nuclear devices for such peaceful purposes as excavating deep-sea harbors, unlocking mineral and gas deposits and digging a new Panama Canal. Seaborg has championed peaceful uses of the atom for more than two decades, but he is going to need all of his conciliatory skills if he is to prevail without dividing the scientific community still further...
...evidence comes from 28 samples of the sea bottom drilled in the Pacific and Antarctic oceans. After microscopic examinations of half a million individual fossils taken from the deep-sea cores, Paleontologist James D. Hays and Geophysicist Neil Opdyke concluded that two species of Radiolaria became extinct 2.4 million years ago, another about two million years ago, two about 1.8 million and one about a million years ago. The dates, Hays told a meeting of the Geological Society of America, are significantly close to known reversals in the earth's field...
Underwater wear has not always looked so good. Time was when the only safe way an amateur diver could tolerate cold deep-sea temperatures was in the same sort of black rubber "dry suit" (socalled because it kept water out) worn by U.S. Navy frogmen during World War II. Effective but cumbersome, the old suit required courses in calisthenics to put it on: one version had to be squirmed into through the neck hole, another through a single narrow slit in the front. Getting dressed too quickly resulted in overheating and perspiration. Appropriately enough, it was the company owned...