Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ocean's midmost depth no wave is born...
...Atlas-Agena rocket blasted downrange over the South Atlantic missile track in a perfect launch. Five minutes later, the protective shield, a redesigned shroud of magnesium thorium, was jettisoned right on schedule. Thirty-seven minutes after that, from a 115-mile-high parking orbit over the Indian Ocean, the rocket engine reignited, kicking the 575-lb. Mariner D payload toward Mars at the required speed-25,600 m.p.h. At week's end all was going well with Mariner D and its 138,-000 individual parts. But the spacecraft still has quite a way to travel-325 million miles along...
...bottom, a region usually neglected by commercial fishermen, swarm with great schools of hake. Often the giant net has caught them at the rate of a ton a minute. Pacific hake bring a low price because they are used to make fish meal, but the net has also caught ocean perch and other food fish. The bureau is looking forward to a time when fleets of supernets will comb the neglected mid-waters of the North Pacific, gulping shiploads of fish that are now almost untroubled by fishermen...
...always been the proud boast of the U.S. armed forces that their pilots would go to extravagant lengths to rescue comrades in trouble. Helicopters flap into impossible places to save plane-crash survivors; skindivers drop to the aid of downed astronauts; search-and-rescue craft crisscross vast areas of ocean. And now the lifesaving arsenal has a new weapon: the military Skyhook developed by Connecticut Inventor Robert E. Fulton...
Designed to Want. Man is adrift on a raft in a boundless ocean, writes Fowles. "From his present dissatisfaction, he reasons that there was some catastrophic wreck in the past, before which he was happy; some golden age, some Garden of Eden. He also reasons that somewhere ahead lies a promised land. Meanwhile, he is miserably en passage." But if man were to find his Utopia, writes Fowles, he would be much more miserable. For man is made to struggle and yearn: "We are designed to want: with nothing to want, we are like windmills in a world without wind...