Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Navy, ever more sophisticated, has developed something called the DSRV, capable of glug-glugging down to distressed subs, latching onto their escape hatches and lifting sailors to the surface. This time, though, the U.S.S. Neptune is lying in a deep ocean trench, subject to slides of rock and silt from farther up this underwater canyon. These slides 1) cover up the escape hatch and 2) keep shoving Neptune over to an angle where the DSRV can't latch onto that hatch. The screen writers must resort to their imaginations, concocting an experimental two-man sub that can clear...
...Deal liberal, Strout-TRB rails regularly against such familiar betes as conservative economists, gun lobbyists, petroleum plutocrats, union busters, segregationists and polluters. Yet he is also troubled by the rise of illegal immigration ("We have a duty to blacks here who are unemployed") and has a deep reverence for the presidency ("The office has a tendency to lift even little men up"). Says Strout: "I get indignant easy." Agrees Washington Post Columnist David Broder: "He must get out of bed every day as if it's his first chance to set the world right...
...years scientists have flocked to the Ecuadorian village of Vilcabamba, deep in the Andes, to study its amazingly vigorous people. Along with two similar mountain regions in the Soviet Caucasus and Pakistani Kashmir, Vilcabamba was believed to be populated by a large number of remarkably old inhabitants. A 1971 census listed 11.4% of the villagers in the over-60 category (compared with 4.5% elsewhere in rural Ecuador) and reported that nine of the 819 residents were 100 or older...
...recalls. "The teeth of the Depression. I had studied art and science, and I was attracted by publishing. The only job available in that profession was shipping clerk for Crown. I was glad to take it." Six years later Cirker and his young wife, Blanche, took a deep breath and plunged their meager savings-a few hundred dollars-into a publishing house. "We didn't choose Dover for romantic English connotations," says Blanche, the company's executive vice president. "We named our business after the building we lived...
...blacks. Is that an unfairness doctrine, a kind of reverse discrimination? Should shows about blacks be held to a higher standard of relevance, sensitivity and accuracy than those about whites? Though any hard and fast rules would be foolish, an effort to do just that might help correct some deep-seated racial misunderstanding. Whites know about whites, and possess a built-in reality adjuster that makes all the necessary corrections and allowances for exaggeration and stupidity when whites are being portrayed. Blacks know something about whites too. But whites in the U.S. still do not know all that much about...