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When David Viscount Linley, 12, and Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones, 10, accompanied their mother Princess Margaret on a visit to the Royal Navy at Portland Naval Base, Britain's Senior Service put on a good show. There was a helicopter flypast, and a fire drill with asbestos-clad sailors putting out a fire. David got an extra treat. He took the wheel of one of the navy's high-powered training boats, then joined the Royal Marines in an assault on a nearby beach. Later he clapped a sailor hat on his head and was heard to pronounce...
Geologists Ian Dalziel of Columbia University and Peter Barker of the University of Birmingham led a multinational scientific team aboard the research ship Glomar Challenger this spring, probing the ocean depths east of the Falkland Islands. Lowering a coring drill 8,500 ft. to the bottom, they penetrated through 1,835 ft. of sediment before beginning to bite into the solid rock that they were looking for. Analysis of the core samples brought to the surface identified it as granite about 600 million years old. The find proved that the rock was continental shelf and not ocean basin crust, which...
Today's technology has unlocked the sea depths, opening a new store of treasures. Oilmen can locate oil, drill and cap wells under the enormous pressures of 700 ft. of water. Mining companies know how to sweep minerals off the cold, abyssal plains 20,000 ft. down...
...significant story or attributing it to unnamed informants, the obligation is to publish. Without reliance on such sources, the principal Watergate exposés simply would not have been possible. Leaks have been commonplace in Washington for generations, and the Nixon Administration uses them too. The President knows the drill well. Martin Hayden, who as a correspondent met Nixon in 1949, recalls that the young Congressman was a generous, reliable ?and anonymous?source for a few reporters covering the investigation of Alger Hiss...
...past six weeks, Tsosie's coalition has sponsored Saturday parades in Farmington to protest the murders and press for more services for Indians. The demonstrations were peaceful until the most recent one, when the Indians collided with the annual sheriffs posse rodeo parade. The drill team was dressed in old cavalry costumes, like the ones worn by the Indians' original oppressors. The resulting fracas left one policeman injured and 31 Indians under arrest. "These people are just trying to stir up trouble," says Councilman Jimmy Drake. "These parades could be caused by subversives, you know-Communists, for instance...