Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crisis. A sea of demonstrators jammed the streets carrying red banners and pictures of Chairman Mao Tse-tung. Mao himself turned up briefly at one rally and was greeted by the singing of the nation's newest hit, We Rely on the Helmsman When We Sail the Ocean. After he left, crowds rushed forward to try to shake the hands of those who had shaken hands with...
...divers plummeted downward. The doings brought crowds running from all along the beach, but Kaprow was unhappy: "I was looking for more surprises, and everything came out very orderly." It almost didn't. Two of the parachutists missed the beach by a wide margin and landed in the ocean, and suddenly it was up to the kids to paddle their air mattresses out to make the rescue...
...orbiter's prime mission is to transmit some 350 medium-and high-resolution pictures of nine possible landing sites for U.S. astronauts near the lunar equator. It will also take an admiring look at Surveyor 1, which now sits silently on the moon's Ocean of Storms after prodigiously transmitting more than 11,000 close-up pictures last June. After dry-developing its own film, Lunar Orbiter 1 will use a light scanner one-twentieth the thickness of a human hair to send pictures back to earth for kinescope reproduction...
...same, but somehow it has lost that old magic-at least to the cops out in Santa Monica, Calif. In the days when Peter Lawford was married to Pat Kennedy, the local police were only too happy to let a helicopter plop down on the public beach by his ocean-front home and whisk him off. Pat has divorced him now, and everything's changed. "Peter who?" asked the captain on duty when Los Angeles Air Taxi Service made its 28th routine request for landing permission. Request denied. Lawford ordered the copter to pick him up anyway. Next...
Trigonometry by Moonlight. In the luxurious resort of Nyali Beach in Kenya, 22 American mathematicians are hard at work on a project into which the U.S. AID agency has poured a million dollars. Their quarters are in a white stucco hotel overlooking the deep blue of the Indian Ocean, and their job is to help African countries prepare modern math textbooks. Said William Martin, 55, of M.I.T., the head of the workshop: "Don't go thinking the sponsors aren't getting their pound of flesh." His wife echoed this sentiment by describing a dance at the hotel: "There...