Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many people have been confused by the Federal Aviation Agency, which continues to hedge on whether it would permit SST flights over land. Shurcliff himself considers that question purely academic. He is sure that even if the FAA starts with a policy of allowing supersonic flights only over the ocean, once the SST is operational the profit motive -- the more planes flying the more routes, the more money--will take over...
...author, decorator, designer, consumer analyst, critic, raconteur, painter, gourmet cook and popular after-dinner speaker. His canvases have won respectful reviews in four Manhattan exhibits. His first book, a diatribe about trends in art and architecture called The Irresponsible Arts, drew mostly critical barbs, but Across the Western Ocean fared better. It consists mostly of the log of two trips in his 47-ft. yawl, Figaro III. In the book, Skipper Snaith, one of the world's top transoceanic sailors, wrote: "We are all swarmy in our many layers of clothing. This morning I thought I smelled a horse...
Late last week a magnetometer towed by the U.S.N.S. Silas Bent, a 285-ft.-long floating oceanographic laboratory, transmitted a suspect blip. But more than a score of wrecks litter the ocean floor off the Rat Islands; until a special camera synchronized to a high-powered strobe light can be lowered over the spot, the sea is guarding its secret...
...sudden upheaval from the ocean floor, the islands are Long Beach's happy solution to a problem that has been nagging the city since 1961. That is, how to preserve the innocent charm of the beach front and at the same time exploit what lies immediately below the city and its bay: an estimated billion barrels of crude...
...visitor returning to the handsome waterfront of Long Beach, Calif., after two years' absence is in for a surprise. In 1965, an empty expanse of Pacific Ocean reached away from the city's beaches, homes, hotels and marinas. Today, a chain of islands, complete with waving palm trees and towering high-rise buildings, is the view from the shore...