Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Almost from takeoff. Operation Tidal Wave lost the necessary ingredient of surprise ; the Germans had cracked the Allied code and tracked the planes all the way to the target. Over the Mediterranean, the lead Liberator carrying the mission navigator suddenly staggered out of formation and crashed into the ocean. It was a disastrous mishap: hours later the lead wave took a wrong heading just short of the target, and Operation Tidal Wave began to disintegrate into chaos...
...company" and fits in with his dream of "changing publishing into a modern corporate enterprise to bring education to the masses." If his dream is realized, predicts Erpf, "we'll have a renaissance here that will make the Italian Renaissance look like a pond next to the ocean-and Crowell-Collier could become more interesting to investors than U.S. Steel...
...right on the surface. I am mixing many colors, fourteen, fifteen perhaps, evolving a labyrinth of hues and shapes. Finally, the entire surface is swimming in color. I retreat a few steps to look at my work. For the devil's sake! I can't see any ocean. The luminescent opening in the center has become an enormous perspective of pink and bluish lights. And here-a white and pink spot. I can't explain how it got there and what it may mean...
After his Trieste reached the ultimate ocean depth, Professor Piccard did not rest on his triumphs. He was full of plans for improved submarine vessels to explore the deeps under better control, and as he charged around Lausanne, Switzerland, this year, he looked, at 78, hardly more scrawny than when he first climbed into the stratosphere 30 years before. Death had brushed close to him so many times that the wonderful professor seemed im mune. But last week the only man to break both depth and altitude records died at home of a heart attack...
...Essex; United Artists). Man stands at the edge of space like a child at the edge of the sea, skipping sophisticated, multimillion-dollar pebbles that sink out of sight. What man needs is a ship that he can sail on the new ocean and bring safely back to port. Four years ago, he produced the first crude model of such a ship, a rowboat of the infinite called...