Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Goodbye Backyards. Manry had dreamed of sailing the Atlantic ever since he first heard about open-ocean sailing as a small boy in India, where his father was a Presbyterian missionary. He bought the 36-year-old Tinker-belle six years ago for $250, completely rebuilt her, taught himself navigation, and practiced long-distance sailing on Lake Erie. "There is a time when one must decide either to risk everything to fulfill one's dreams or sit for the rest of one's life in the backyard," he told his wife...
...worn rocks. Here and there, cool mountain streams spill over steep cliffs into small, semitropical coves, and everywhere unexploited ruins lend an air of timeless tranquillity. Marble columns stand cool and sublime amongst pine trees, crusaders' castles tower above rocky promontories, and old fortresses jut out into the ocean. Most wonderful of all, the coast is virtually devoid of tourists. The reason is simple enough. Most of the Turkish Riviera has barely been touched by the 20th century. The hotels are few and Spartan, the food is good but unfamiliar, the night life is nil, and travel is tortuous...
...million price tag have all earned NASA's liquid-hydrogen-fueled Centaur rocket such derisive nicknames as "the Hangar Queen" and "the Edsel of the Missile Industry." But as it separated from its Atlas booster and ignited in a burst of pale blue flame high above the Atlantic Ocean last week, Centaur took on its proper dignity. The most powerful rocket of its size in the world, built to fire a one-ton Surveyor spacecraft to the moon, the 48-ft. Centaur shoved a dum my Surveyor into a perfect flight toward a preselected point in space...
...infer that Mars has never had a significant amount of water or an atmosphere denser than it is now, or else the Martian surface would show more signs of erosion. - There were no signs of the vaunted canals, and no Earthlike features such as mountain chains, great valleys or ocean basins...
...Force project, MOL has definite military goals. It could be used for spy-in-the-sky surveillance, nuclear-test detection, target reconnaissance and weather reporting. But equipped with cameras, radar and infra-red sensors, a manned space station could have endless peaceful uses. It could map ocean currents, help locate underground water, experiment with modifying the weather, and take improved pictures of the stars and planets. At San Francisco, for example, International Business Machines engineers suggested that an orbiting laboratory 200 miles above the earth could complete in two days a global survey of all land under cultivation, even distinguishing...