Word: leviathan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...awesome statistic. Dr. Scheffer begins the year in "a quiet month in autumn in the northeastern Pacific," with his calf whale backing into the world tail first-14 feet long, weighing a ton, ready to swim. Nursing for two years on mother's milk, the little leviathan will gain seven pounds a day. Sexual maturity will arrive at the age of nine, but he will not reach full growth until he is 30 to 45. Then he may be as much as 60 feet long and 60 tons in weight. He will be able to cruise at six knots...
...will give him semiofficial status as the Great Survivor of the '30s, as the man who knew what it was like to live Inside the Whale (the title of his famous essay on Henry Miller) and to resist absorption by the corrosive digestive juices of the British imperial leviathan...
...Northerners less liberal. Further, middle-road Republicans like Nixon discovered big, centralized government as a target long before Wallace arose as a threat and Southern Republicanism as a lure. It is still an attractive mark to those in all regions who view the Federal Government as an inefficient leviathan. That this position also appeals to the old states'rights sentiment, the resistance to change imposed by alien authority, is something of a bonus for Nixon. The Southern attitude is an inducement for him to press the point vigorously...
...armada. The day after Enterprise headed toward Wonsan, North Korean MIGS flew more than 40 sorties around the port, and U.S. listening posts intercepted a steady stream of chatter from Pyongyang to the pilots: "Where is the Enterprise? What is the position of Enterprise?" Either the leviathan was making North Korea nervous, or Pyongyang, in the wake of its success at swiping Pueblo, was thinking of bigger things...
...latest leviathan, says IHI's president, Renzo Taguchi, 61, who happens to be a golf buff, "would take a good drive and four iron from bow to stern." The ship is 1,150 ft. long with an overall height of 105 ft., and will be powered by an 18,700-h.p. engine, with a second one standing by for emergencies...