Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American? He's still around, but his haunts have changed, and so have his looks: he is younger now-often no more than 20-and far less affluent. He crosses the ocean on a charter flight, not a luxury liner, carries no steamer trunk but a single (generally battered) suitcase, and sometimes gets along on a knapsack. He travels in a Volkswagen (also generally battered) or a secondhand scooter, or he hitchhikes. He will stay in hostels or third-class hotels but prefers to bed down in a sleeping bag, never cares what his food is cooked...
...obvious need has been for more precise exploration of the deep. And the obvious lack, until now, has been ways and means to plunge to great depths, remain there for days or weeks at a time and explore such mysteries as the exact topography and geological composition of the ocean floor...
Boasting a cruising speed of 3.8 knots and an operating range of 80 miles, the Aluminaut will be able to stay submerged for up to 72 hours and explore 60% of the oceans' floors. Its three-man crew - a captain and two scientists - will have two tons of scientific gear at their disposal. All of this should lead to important new discoveries in oceanology, marine biology and undersea geology - plus practical profits. The Aluminaut may hold out interesting possibilities in ship salvage, in drilling for oil and mining from the bottom of the ocean, says Reynolds Metals Executive Vice...
...Americans, the source of pain was all too familiar: a 297-page report by a parliamentary committee investigating overseas military spending. Sweeping the bases, the committee found Benghazi about to be closed, Hong Kong indefensible, Gibraltar all but useless, Singapore disorganized, Malaysia too powerful, and the new Indian Ocean airbase at Gan dismayingly expensive ("The contract estimate has been revised on five occasions"). At all these bases, charged the committee, the armed forces have squandered the taxpayers' money on illusory projects. At Hong Kong, the army "surrendered" valuable land to the local government, which not long ago sold...
...trouble. For all the crowds, Atlantic City is a small town (pop. 59,544). Unlike Chicago or Los Angeles, where a political convention takes over the whole downtown area, delegates were deployed in hotels, motels and boardinghouses up and down the boardwalk and as far south as Ocean City, ten miles from Convention Hall. The usual convention tension and sense of self-importance were not only dissipated by decentralization, but also by delegates' horror tales of price gouging nightclubs, bad, rude restaurants, and Charles Addams accommodations. Above all, perhaps, the fault lay in what one big-D Democrat called...