Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...supposedly safe constituency and, despite a Gaullist landslide, was soundly beaten by a local garage owner. But Debré was determined to try again, even though he had to travel 6,000 miles to French-owned Réunion Island, a tiny volcanic rock in the Indian Ocean, where a by-election offered another opportunity to run for the Assembly. The dour, fussy Debré took no chances. He flew to the capital city of St.-Denis and campaigned vigorously, holding 70 meetings in three steaming, sweaty weeks. As was confidently predicted, Debré swamped his luckless opponent...
...recent trade agreement ending their five-year official boycott of each other's goods. Then, half way across the East China Sea one afternoon last week, the Leap Forward suddenly radioed for help. Four hours later, the pride of China's merchant fleet lay on the ocean floor...
...baseball. It has no visible means of support, yet it spins at 30,000 r.p.m. Awed naval technicians call it a "star in a bottle," and they count on that man-made star to tell nuclear submarines exactly where they are, even after months of cruising in black ocean deeps...
...just a telephone operator, the company had a plan for space communications soon after Sputnik went up-and launched Telstar last year. Working on the theory that "1970 starts today," General Electric has set up a colony of 300 planners-one of the largest groups anywhere-by the ocean at Santa Barbara, Calif., where they ponder everything from long-range prospects for the Japanese economy to the competition in education between the U.S. and Russia. Noting that U.S. consumers are spending increasing portions of their rising personal incomes on medical care, G.E. vice presidents are pondering whether their company should...
Living in terror to die in torment-Man's fate and theirs-and the island rocks and immense ocean beyond, and Lobos Darkening above the bay: they...