Word: oceaneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...faintly luminous, neon-fogged light. In the woolly silence, thoughts emerge slowly, but with a perfect weighty clarity, like globes of blown glass. Right away, you notice that the gritty daytime haze of dust has disappeared, to be replaced by night, and it is like being on the ocean floor, so slow is it and silent, so dimly blue...
...attending or not attending classes students who c-c-can't stand K-K-Katy's should have a place to go. If enough people want such an institution--something even more natural than a macrobiotic diet--it should be possible to establish one. The people are like the ocean. They cannot be stopped...
...past few months, the U.S. has been greatly concerned about the Soviet naval buildup in the Indian Ocean. Last December, for instance, Washington signed an agreement that ensures U.S. naval vessels continued access to Bahrein, now that the British have abandoned their base there. More recently, the Pentagon announced that there would be frequent patrols in the Indian Ocean by units of the Pacific-based Seventh Fleet...
...appears that Washington was simultaneously making efforts through diplomatic channels to prevent the buildup altogether. Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs U. Alexis Johnson allowed that the Administration had asked Moscow for a mutual curbing of naval forces in the Indian Ocean. Last year the Soviets hinted that such an agreement might be possible; so far, though, they have not responded to the latest American initiative...
...France, the world's longest, largest, fastest ocean liner, is in the Pacific this week, a month into a 91-day round-the-world cruise that includes calls at 27 ports. Aboard are some 1,150 passengers, mostly American or French. Occupying cabins or suites that cost from a minimum of $5,640 to $99,340, they have paid the French Line a total of over $11 million for the cruise, thus setting a new maritime record of sorts. TIME Associate Editor Edwin Bolwell was on board the France as it sailed between New York and Trinidad. Here...