Word: fishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TOMORROW'S WORLD: FEEDING THE BILLIONS (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A land-clearing project in the Amazon jungles, an Idaho fish farm, and large-scale production of protein-rich algae in California are some of the experiments under way to expand the world's food supply...
Moreover, unlike other naval powers, the Soviet Union uses its merchant marine and other seagoing services as important arms of the navy. Russia has the world's fastest-growing merchant fleet, which will pass the lagging U.S. merchant marine in tonnage in the early 1970s. Its high-seas fishing fleet is the world's largest and most modern; many of its 4,000 craft fish for vital information along foreign coasts as well as for the creatures of the sea. The Sovi et Union also has the largest oceanographic fleet, whose 200 ships plumb the earth's waters for militarily...
...sounds of the sea. Apart from a sub's noises, the sea is full of other sounds, a syncopated symphony of crackling shrimp, clucking sea robins and grunting whales; there is even the engine-like throb of an unknown sea animal that Navymen call the "130-r.p.h. fish." Once the various sounds have been sorted out, the American sub hunters flash the details of the sub's signature to a Navy base in the U.S., where a computer has memorized the signatures of the vast majority of the Soviet submarines. Within seconds, the computer flashes back the name and description...
...also systematically starved ("The fish soup is bitter and floating with eyes. I swallow the soup, eyes and all"), but he was not allowed to die because his jailers persisted in the hope of extracting a confession from him "so that we may be sure you have learned to respect the Soviet Union." Wynne never gave them that satisfaction, and was finally exchanged for a Soviet spy in British hands. A tale such as his resounds far louder than the hosannas of the Soviets' 50th-anniversary celebrations...
...first two heats of the two-man bobsled. And no one could keep pace with Russia's Ludmila Titova in the ladies' 500-meter speed-skating race, although three U.S. girls-Minnesota's Mary Meyers, Illinois' Dianne Holum and Ohio's Jenny Fish-tied for second place, and all got silver medals...