Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From start to finish, the New York World's Fair was planned for profit. Remembering the ocean of red ink that engulfed New York's 1939-40 World of Tomorrow, the World's Fair of 1964-65 Corp. schemed and ballyhooed to make sure that the billion-dollar bazaar would not only repay every last penny it cost, but also would even show a $99 million surplus. New York City hotels, stores and restaurants also counted confidently on record profits from hordes of tourists attracted by the extravaganza in Flushing Meadow. By last week, well into...
...large airports and shopping centers, and are designing shipping containers that can be used interchangeably in truck, rail, sea and air transport. Lockheed is also working on a 300-ton hydrofoil vessel for the Navy, designing a shell-shaped undersea workboat that will carry a crew around the ocean floor in search of oil and minerals, and perfecting an emergency system that will use solid-propellant gas generators to expel water from a disabled submarine's ballast tanks, enabling it to surface rapidly...
...Bullet for the President. Salazar himself has never visited Mozambique -a fact that most white Mozambicanos resent. But last week his puppet President, Rear Admiral Americo Deus Rodrigues Tomas, concluded a two-week swing through the country in an effort to prove that Lisbon really cares. From the Indian Ocean port of Lourenço Marques (where he reviewed 5,000 troops and 200 Alsatian, Doberman, boxer and Labrador guard dogs) to the villages of the Limpopo River Valley, the sprightly, 69-year-old President met with rousing receptions and blizzards of confetti. But for all the outward signs...
...show his will to win at the starting line, at the windward mark, and again at the leeward mark. Then, perhaps, the fledgling sailor may be considered qualified to crew for the likes of Corny Shields, in International One-Designs, or America's Cup 12-meters, or in ocean-going yachts in the biennial Bermuda races...
...sailing is racing, and the important thing in racing is winning. If any man is interested in sailing merely to enjoy the sensation of having his boat driven by the wind, Shields is not for him, and he is not for Shields. As a Johnny-come-lately to ocean racing (in 1946), Shields was appalled to find that on the 635-mile course from Newport to Bermuda, which takes four to six days, skippers allowed their crewmen to relax. Not Shields. He insisted on enforcing the same tense, split-second discipline that he knew from racing for a couple...