Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have assumed that the distant planet is devoid of life. But just because earthlings could not live there, says British Amateur Astronomer Axel Firsoff, is no reason to believe that Jupiter is not a populous place. Animals might well thrive even if their planet is covered with a limpid ocean of cold, liquid ammonia...
...very different from earth's familiar "aquo" chemistry, but there are vital similarities. Both systems produce some well-known compounds, among them the amino acids of which proteins are built. Firsoff is certain that when the first living organisms evolved on earth, the atmosphere above the primeval ocean contained ammonia but no free oxygen. When oxygen accumulated in the atmosphere and ammonia disappeared, life on earth adapted itself to the new conditions. The amino acids that form earth's proteins, says Firsoff, are relics of the prehistoric conditions under which earth life was born...
...Very High-Frequency Omni-Range), which requires land-based transmitters, can guide a transatlantic liner for only 150 miles over the ocean. VOR is useful chiefly just after take-off and just before landing...
Whale or minnow, the incident did not improve South Bend's nerves. Until the current strike, Studebaker-Packard and the United Auto Workers had got along as well as two men struggling to keep a raft afloat in an ocean. In the past seven years, only eight production days had been lost to strikes. The U.A.W. had even accepted lower wages from S.P. than from the industry's Big Three to help the company survive...
Other incidents have led to protests and legal actions against AEC. In 1959. Massachusetts residents, through town meetings and petitions to Washington, persuaded AEC to discontinue ocean dumpings off Cape Cod. The Long Island town of Islip last month rescinded the permit of a company that planned to erect a fenced and windowless waste-storage building in the town's new industrial park. And New Britain. Conn., for almost five years has been waging a court fight to block construction of a storage yard...