Word: oceaneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Expand cooperative research in oceanography, including study of ocean currents and marine biology...
...Secret Service. If so, one must conclude that the Secret Service has become more concerned with aesthetics and amenities than with the President's safety. Among the more curious items in the San Clemente figures: $8,395 for a bullet-resistant screen separating the swimming pool from the ocean (since there seems to be no real threat from the Pacific, it has been suggested that the real purpose of the screen is to secure the President against shore breezes); $9,910 to "remove dry weeds to eliminate fire hazards"; $1,853 for a flag pole and $476 to paint...
What price lobster? So valued are the tasty crustaceans that two U.S. states are in a boiling dispute. Last January a New Hampshire lobsterman was arrested by a Maine patrol boat for fishing north of the rather vague boundary separating the two states' ocean waters. New Hampshire's Governor Meldrim Thomson Jr. promptly hoisted the colors. He suggested that Maine Governor Kenneth Curtis drop the charges. Curtis ignored him, and the lobsterman was convicted and fined...
...small production line and a fierce de votion to quality, Vick is determined to give fits to competitors whom he calls "the plastic pop-out people"-the mass producers of lightly built fiber-glass boats, few of which are suitable for long-term living aboard, to say nothing of ocean cruising. As testament to Vick's success, a small armada of West-sail cruisers is already fitting out for round-the-world voyaging...
...boat by Bill Garden, says one of his admirers, "always seems to fit into the tradition of the Grand Banks fishing schooner and the opium clipper." Odd combination? Not for the offshore sailors to whom Garden has given long-keeled boats that are easy on the helm. Not on ocean passages, when a snug Garden rig teaches the enjoyment of what the designer calls "chasing off before the wind under boisterous conditions...