Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...starting flag fell prematurely in the annual Miami-to-Nassau powerboat race, sent speedboats scuttling wildly across each other's wakes, resulted in a collision between a Coast Guard patrol boat and a 40-ft. cruiser. For once the choppy ocean course was placid and the race went to the swift, not the sturdy. The winner: Aokone, a light 25-ft. runabout powered by twin 280-h.p. Mercury engines and skippered by Florida's John Bakos. Aokone covered the 182-mile distance in a record 3 hr. 42 min. 20 sec., at an average speed of 49 m.p.h...
...There was Ranger at Frenchman Flat near Las Vegas, Greenhouse at Eniwetok, Buster-Jangle and Tumbler-Snapper. With Ivy in November 1952, the first hydrogen bomb was exploded, wiping out the tiny island of Elugelab, and digging a crater a mile long and 175 ft. deep in the ocean's floor, near Eniwetok. During Castle, near Bikini in the spring of 1954, miscalculations on power and meteorology caused radioactive ash to fall and injure 23 Japanese tuna fishermen-one fatally-on their trawler, Lucky Dragon, which was 14 miles outside the restricted zone. Ogle was a top technical official...
People of Potential. His subject matter was never more complex than that first picture: it was always the human figure swimming, boating, napping, walking. His people were rarely recognizable I faces that are ambiguous"), and they often seemed blurred into their environment. In both Bather and Ocean and Green Canoe, flesh takes on the color of earth; the forest melts into water, and sky blends into sea. To some degree, a figure by Park mute and thickly sculpted, can b seen simply as one more of nature's forms...
...first of the two-stage missile's solid-fuel engines ignited, spouting a rooster tail of naming gas. Quickly Skybolt accelerated, spurted far ahead of the B-52, turned its nose upward and climbed sharply out of sight. By the time its dummy warhead splashed in the ocean far downrange, it was clear that Skybolt, which has been under forced-draft development by Douglas Aircraft Co. for nearly three years, was well along the difficult road toward deployment with the Strategic Air Command...
...glimpses of an unconventional attraction: a large, strikingly modern room resplendent with teakwood ceiling, Abyssinian peacock-wood paneling and a floor of peacock-blue carpeting. Marveling, the visitors ran eager hands over a milky terrazzo counter embedded with tiny pieces of brass to simulate marine life on an ocean bottom. Some of the visitors even opened an account. For though it looked for all the world like a cocktail lounge, the room was the newest branch of Lebanon's Intra Bank. "Nobody's wandered in and asked for a drink yet," said jubilant Intra Bank Founder Yusuf Bedas...