Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...skinny adventurer had simply decided on a new direction. His next destination was the black bottom of the ocean, and he did not propose to go there in anything as tame as a bathysphere, one of the steel-walled, cable-controlled balls that were used at the time for deep-water research...
...show that the bathyscaphe is a dependable scien tific device in which the father of a family may entrust himself without anxiety." He raised no objections when in 1960 Jacques cruised the good ship Trieste to the bot tom of the Marianas Trench, the deepest known place in the ocean, where the water pressure at 37,800 ft. is eight tons per square inch...
...itself is weakening, it will bring great changes in many branches of science. Dr. Dicke points out that gravitation is what holds the earth together. If it is weakening, the earth must be expanding, and this may be the cause of the cracks that were recently found in the ocean floor (TIME, Sept. 14, 1959). Gravitation also determines the size of the stars, which are balls of hot gas. If gravitation was stronger in the past, the stars must have been smaller. They were probably brighter, too, because their denser interiors generated more thermonuclear energy than they...
...resident saw the sea carry off not only his house but his life savings of $30,000 hidden in it. Tele vision's temporarily retired personality, Dave Garroway. much more fortunate, sold his Long Island house for $39,000 one day before it was gulped up by the ocean...
Died. John Gale Alden, 78, ruddy Yankee yachtsman and sailboat designer who put ocean racing within reach of the only moderately rich with his Malabar class of small rugged schooners derived from Gloucester fishing smacks, proved the soundness of his designs by becoming the first man to win three Bermuda regattas, and set more of his hulls afloat than any other U.S. marine architect; of a stroke; near Orlando...