Word: icebergs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...revolutionary iceberg hit Portugal last week--and though Marcello Caetano's dictatorship could still claim control at week's end, it could do so only by ignoring the nine-tenths that remained submerged...
This is an oil-exploration barge, a triangular island almost an acre in size that is towed "on location" atop three sturdy stilts that float on huge pontoons. The pontoons are then filled with water and submerged 146 ft., giving the barge the stability of an iceberg. The barge is securely steadied by electronically controlled ballast and nine anchors while its drill probes into the sea bottom 340 ft. below. Already the drill is bringing up samples from 2,000 ft. below the shelf. The samples are carefully analyzed for hints of oil, but the drill may have to bite...
THURSDAY: Jaques Cousteau. The famed explorer tackles Antarctia in a four-part special entitled "South to Fire and Ice." Part one looks at the penguins of King Goerge Island and takes a camera beneath an iceberg. CH.5.8.p.m. Color...
...groups already engaged in boycotting items (Gulf Oil, grapes, iceberg lettuce, Farah pants) saw some action this summer. Following what Howard W. Davis, general manager of the Harvard Cooperative Society, called "continuous and intense concern" of Coop members, the Coop decided July 19 to discontinue its annual $100,000 in purchases from Farah clothing. On July 23, J. August, a Harvard Square clothier, also discontinued its orders. Almy's clothing store in Central Square dropped its order from over $1 million to under $100,000 as a result of informal discussions with the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union...
...Army Cold Regions Research Laboratory and William Campbell of the U.S. Geological Survey. They envision "supertugs," perhaps nuclear-powered, hauling 20-mile-long islands of ice from the Antarctic* to parched coastal regions of South America and Australia. They calculate that as much as 60% to 70% of an iceberg would remain unmelted after a slow tow trip lasting as long as six months. Upon reaching port, the iceberg could be chopped up and melted. The estimated cost of iceberg water: only about 1% that of desalinated sea water...