Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fireboats were spraying, and the French ambassador was waiting. Into New York harbor steamed the world's newest and longest ocean liner, France, her profile ennobled by huge ailerons protruding from two canted stacks.* On her maiden voyage, the France last week carried 1,600 French Line officials and paying customers, all of them grateful for a touch of dry land. The great ship had run into a storm that spoiled one day of the voyage as well as some dishes and dinners...
...tune for whistlers, meteorologists studying the turbulent Antarctic atmosphere will launch weather balloons from a sheltering hangar on the ship's stern. Oceanographers will study the tossing sea water by measuring its temperature, salinity, and oxygen content at all depths ranging up from the bottom. They will chart ocean currents and plunge long tubular probes into the ocean floor. The cores of silt they bring up will give glimpses of Antarctic geologic history over millions of years...
...Antarctic. Many scientists believe that the carbon dioxide discharged by man's furnaces and engines is accumulating in the atmosphere, where it may some day drastically change earth's climate by acting like the glass of a great, global greenhouse. More cheerful theorists think that cold ocean water takes fresh C02 out of the atmosphere as fast as it is generated. Observations made on Eltanin may help settle the argument...
Ranger I and Ranger II had been flops because of bad propulsion; Ranger III's launch was apparently O.K. The Atlas fired its three motors, then plopped back into the ocean as planned. The Agena fired and soared into a "parking orbit," circling 105 miles above the earth. At the proper point on this orbit, Agena fired again to sling itself into a collision course with the moon. Ranger IIIs radio went on the air, and its reports were favorable...
Echo from the Past? Coupled with the compliments for West Germany were dazzling hints of trade treasures ahead; an "ocean-size market is waiting . . . but only a tiny part of existing possibilities is being used." Getting to the point last week. Radio Moscow spoke of "the spirit of Rapallo,"* and in a major switch, Pravda assured Bonn that none of this meant West Germany must become a "neutral" and leave NATO; relations could be "normalized" without breaking up existing blocs. In fact, it was hinted that Russia might drop the idea of a separate peace treaty with East Germany...