Word: ocean
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...UNDERSEAS WORLD OF JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAU (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). First of a series of scientific-adventure specials filmed by Captain Cousteau under the world's major oceans during a five-year oceanographic expedition. For this week's feature, "Sharks," Cousteau's crew probes the Red Sea, Indian Ocean and Gulf of Aden, studying the fish and ways to protect downed flyers and shipwreck victims from them...
...achieve perfected ICBM capability-and the range to hit the U.S.- until 1972 or even 1975. Before that day, the Chinese will have to conduct extensive testing of the 5,000-mile missiles, and they have only two directions in which to fire. One is into the Pacific Ocean, where the precedent for testing has been established by other nuclear powers. The other is the Indian Ocean to the southwest...
...pneumonia; in Concord, Mass. As a Harvard professor in 1930, Bigelow founded what has become one of the nation's biggest oceanographic centers, a vast complex at Woods Hole, Mass., that has charted the Gulf Stream, explained tricks of sonar to the U.S. Navy, now maps the ocean's floor and searches out ways to tap the vast underwater food potential...
Last week, in two hospitals separated by almost 8,000 miles of Atlantic Ocean, the historic juxtaposition happened and the heart transplants were performed. The physicians who performed them thus reached the surgical equivalent of Mount Everest, followed automatically by the medical equivalent of the problem of how to get down-in other words, how to keep the patient and transplant alive...
...home near Radcliffe. He appears fairly content with Harvard, although he permits himself one general disgruntlement. "The thing I miss here is beauty," he says. "There are too many buildings in Cambridge, and the weather is abominable. Since my youth in France, I've come to expect a warm ocean as a natural right, and I think no one has an excuse for living in New England. We professors who enjoy Mediterranean landscapes--and there are many of us--should petition Harvard to buy us a farm in southern France when we retire...