Word: docked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stationary ways from the keel up. Instead, ships will emerge from a giant assembly shed stern first in 45-ft. sections; as they move down the ways, everything from deckplates to cabin carpets will be installed, so that the ship does not have to spend months in a fitting dock after launching. As the bow of one is being completed, the stern of the next will start down the line. With a 40,000-ton tanker, the yard will halve the normal 40-week period between keel-laying and sea trials...
...World (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Premiere of a new series about four boys who live on a houseboat moored at a river dock in a Midwestern college town...
...almost any society the five men in the dock would probably have tangled with the law sooner or later. (A sixth defendant is still at large.) What made the case fascinating in France was that the five were drawn almost inevitably to the S.A.O. and its paranoiac delusions of glory from similarly abject backgrounds: broken homes, army service in Algeria, feckless drifting from job to job. In the dock they seemed almost a composite of the S.A.O. mentality. The lineup...
...glut of oil tankers-and European refineries had no more need for sausage barges. Hawthorne began to think of using them with other loads in remote places. Dracones are cheap (from $12,600 to $63,000), can be towed easily by small boats, and do not need fancy dock facilities. And once its cargo has been drained off, a Dracone can either be inflated with air for the return tow or rolled up and carried home on the deck of the towing vessel...
...rooftop pool, the Boston-based Sheraton Corp. last week opened its new, $12 million Sheraton Motor Inn on Manhattan's West Side. Billed as the "world's largest motel," the 20-story Motor Inn sits improbably among tatty warehouses beside the piers where the transatlantic liners dock, and offers its customers, along with free parking, a spectacular view of the Hudson. Judging from the first curious-tourist turnout, business should be good. But far from taking this as encouragement to go on to even bigger things. Sheraton President Ernest Henderson, 65, has just canceled $25 million worth...