Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...engines roaring as filmed special-effects from actual space shots conjure up a journey to the moon. The Colonel Glenn Sky Ride has 16 plastic bubbles orbiting 80 feet above the boardwalk. For downward exploration the Neptune Diving Bell encloses 30 people, drops them 35 feet down to an "ocean floor" where live porpoises play. Further along is the Double Sky Wheel, a king-sized dumbbell with gyratory center beam supporting two independent wheels that can't decide whether to plunge suicidally earthward or whiz away toward Mars...
Healthy, wealthy, submersible Department Store Scion Peter R. Gimbel, 35, is wont to prowl around the ocean floor (he dived to the sunken Andrea Doria in 1956, again in 1957) when he is not busy with his career as an investment banker. Now rising above all that, young Gimbel joined a National Geographic Society expedition bound for the Peruvian Andes, early next month will parachute into the remote upper reaches (9,000-14,000 ft.) of the Vilcabamba range-an unmapped area never penetrated by outsiders and considered a possible site of early Inca civilization. Accompanying Gimbel on the three...
Trieste on Call. The Navy is reasonably sure by now that Thresher lies close by, under a small area of ocean marked by bright orange buoys. Hopefully, the Trieste will soon photograph the actual wreck. The depth will be moderate for the Trieste, which has already cruised to the bottom of the Marianas Trench off Guam, 35,800 ft. down, but the strong currents off Cape Cod are a serious threat. Though proof against water pressure in the deepest ocean, Trieste has feeble propulsion. She can creep only four or five miles at about 1.4 m.p.h.; during the 45 minutes...
...gateway to Europe (its watery fingers reach into every Common Market country except Italy), Rotterdam last year handled 25,000 ocean-going ships and 250,000 barges. Unlike New York's spread-out and orderly waterfront, its 17-mile river route to the North Sea is a forest of cranes, derricks and masts through which ships of all sizes confidently move in every direction. Along its banks are such big oil refiners as Shell, Caltex, Esso, Mobil and British Petroleum, which have made Rotterdam one of the world's main oil-refining centers. The port boasts the Verolme...
Physically, Cleopatra is as magnificent as money and the tremendous Todd-AO screen can make it. The De Luxe Color is perfection; the sets, for the most part, are harmonious modules of the Golden Section to which all good classical architecture answered; and a capital ship for an ocean trip is Cleopatra's barge-250 ft. from prow to poop and covered with gilt linoleum...