Word: gelatins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Oceanographer Ewing, called "Doc" by admirers and "The Dragon" by some others, was born in Lockney, Texas of a farm family. He put himself through Houston's Rice Institute, taught physics at Lehigh University. In 1934 he got a summer job tossing hunks of blasting gelatin from a whaleboat off the East Coast so that the recorded shock waves could be used to study the sediments on the bottom. Ever since, the ocean's bottom has been Maurice Swing's oyster. But unlike most oceanographers, he is no sentimental sea dog. He dislikes the ocean itself...