Word: oceaneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chief among these techniques is "systematic desensitization," the process a mother uses when she accustoms a baby to the ocean by dipping in one foot first, then a leg, then the infant's whole body. In that case, the delightful feel of the water gets the better of fright. Similarly in behavior therapy, Wolpe uses gradual methods of confronting neurotic behavior to overcome anxiety. The Pennsylvania student, for example, was told that his failure had conditioned him to fear sex, and he was advised to find an understanding girl who would be patient with him until he had conquered...
...sort of day that has made Morocco a magnet for Western tourists. A hot sun blazed over Skhirat, where King Hassan II's rambling white summer palace is set amid oaks, poplars and eucalypti beside the Atlantic, and cooling breezes wafted in from the ocean. By Moslem custom, no women guests were present for the King's 42nd birthday party. But among the 500 male guests were ambassadors, generals and ministers. There were also the royal shirtmaker, shoemaker and tailor (all Italians), and four physicians (three French and one Austrian), who were in Morocco to give Hassan...
...Many of the partygoers took a dip in the ocean or the King's pool. Some shot clay pigeons. The principal sporting event was a golf tournament; Hassan is such an ardent golfer that a 20-ft. birthday picture hanging in one of Rabat's main squares depicted him in golfing clothes. At the 18th hole, U.S. Ambassador Stuart W. Rockwell chatted with General Mohammed Medbouh, commander of the King's military household. "We are the only ones who take golf seriously," sniffed Medbouh. ∙ A lavish buffet, which included lobster, smoked salmon, roast sheep and couscous...
...committee and its seven co-plaintiffs (including the Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, and SANE) claim that the blast may trigger "a succession of earthquakes" (fault lines run from Alaska through Southern California), tsunamis or earthquake-produced tidal waves of "unpredictable size and direction," contaminate the surrounding ocean with radioactive materials and leak poisonous debris into the atmosphere...
...underground nuclear tests held in Nevada, AEC officials contend that no leaks have been recorded for tests of more than 200 kilotons. On the other hand, they admit that water contaminated with radioactive tritium could seep through open rock to the Bering Sea and the Pacific Ocean any time within three to 1,000 years. Such uncertainty hardly reassured the concerned environmentalists...