Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lifting It Up. Discoverer XIII was aimed at a patch of Pacific Ocean 60 miles by 200 miles in size. It hit its target with an accuracy that proved embarrassing to the Air Force: C-119 planes assigned to pluck the capsule from the air with grapples were saturated with radio signals from directly overhead, could not get a fix on its position...
...Navy joyfully jumped to the rescue. Aboard the Haiti Victory, 100 miles away, observers pinpointed Discoverer's position by radar, dispatched a helicopter to the scene. As the helicopter hovered 10 ft. above the choppy Pacific, Frogman Robert Carroll leaped into the ocean, strapped a cable to the bobbing satellite and gave the signal to lift away. Discoverer XIII-"Lucky Thirteen"-had returned safely to earth. Said Lockheed's Missile Chief Herschel Brown: "The U.S. has accomplished an unprecedented first. The Russians have attempted a recovery orbit and failed. We have succeeded-and we feel pretty darned good...
...Ocean's 11 (Dorchester; Warner) is a dandy illustration of the kind of acute thinking that keeps movie nonsense miles ahead of TV nonsense. When the Pharaohs of the small screen plan another shoot-'em-up, they give the tough-guy hero a routine tough-word last name, such as Gunn or Staccato. Hollywood's mentalists, on the other hand, resorted to nothing so crude in naming the hard case played by Frank Sinatra. They called him Danny Ocean. This not only permits a title too baffling to leave the mind easily; it offers a straight line...
...test catches throughout the northeast Pacific. Historically, Bristol Bay salmon runs have followed a consistent cycle,* been smallest in years ending with 0 and 5. But Royce thought this was accidental, based his forecast for a good 1960 run on the scientific grounds of heavy catches in the ocean feeding areas and added an if-if the Japanese did not fish too heavily. Fishermen listened, and into Bristol Bay swarmed more than 300 from other Alaskan fishing grounds, swelled the fleet to 625 craft. The canneries flew in 200 additional Eskimos to man extra processing lines...
...Cunard liner Sylvania lay alongside Southampton's Ocean Ter minal ready to sail for New York. Jus before sailing time, 200 members of her 440-man crew walked off the gangplank in a wildcat strike for higher wages. Cap tain William Law called the passenger together in the tourist lounge. "Do you want to sail?" he asked. Yes, shouted th passengers. "All right," said Captain Law "I'm woefully short of catering people Working hours are from 7 in the morning until 9:30 at night. You'll make abou $22 a week. There...