Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ocean of clouds...
...hydrogen peroxide rocket to correct the slow eastward drift, and actually days will pass before Syncom's delicate guidance apparatus will jockey it into an exactly synchronous orbit. Then it is supposed to swing gently in a north-south figure-eight pattern, crossing the equator over the Atlantic Ocean while radiomen below test how well it can relay messages between distant points on the distant earth...
...been a long Indian name for a dormant idea. Last week President Kennedy called it "one of the most astonishing and beneficial joint enterprises that the people of the U.S. have ever undertaken." With Canada as a junior partner, the U.S. again will aim to harness the 18-ft. ocean tides of Passamaquoddy Bay on the Maine border and use them to generate electric power for New England, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia (see map). The project, said an Interior Department report, would do "as much for New England as Grand Coulee Dam has done for the Pacific Northwest...
...Pacific, off San Diego, at the site of a sewer-construction project. Strapped to a pontoon was an injured workman, his leg broken by a whiplashing cable. Suddenly the chopper tilted and crashed into the water. Aboard the barge, preparing to inspect the pipe 217 ft. down on the ocean floor, Jon Lindbergh, 31, deep-sea-diver son of Air Hero Charles Lindbergh, stripped off his gear, dived in and swam 100 yds. to the crash. Working under water, Lindbergh swiftly cut the injured man free from the wreckage. But the odds were against him. By the time a skiff...
Drip-Dry Adventure. "I've made pictures with less excitement in them," huffed Goldwyn. "There we were in the middle of the ocean trying to stop boats. My wife was very disturbed. I was wondering how I was going to swim ashore. Finally, this odd-looking boat came along-something new. It swung around and picked us up. Later on, the fellow who picked us up fell in the water...