Word: oceaneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...highly, is presently pondering an Israeli request for additional military equipment. Israel is convinced that Washington is using such aid as both carrot and stick to force it into unwanted compromises. The Israelis told Helms that since the Soviets are moving inexorably southward toward East Africa and the Indian Ocean, establishing a naval presence and setting up ports of call and repair facilities, friendly nations such as Israel ought to be included in Western defense planning. On that basis, the Israelis argue, arms shipments ought to be determined according to strategic priorities, and not be subject to the more local...
Despite powerful opposition, Delaware has chosen conservation over industrial growth. Last week Governor Russell W. Peterson signed a law that stops heavy industry from locating new plants on the state's 125-mile-long ocean, bay and river coastline. The law, first of its kind in the U.S., specifically bans oil refineries, petrochemical complexes, steel mills, offshore bulk-transfer terminals and paper mills-all potential polluters. "Clean" industries (such as jewelry manufacturing and research labs) may settle on Delaware's shoreline, but only after the state planner and a new ten-man control board approve applicants' plans...
...Wilson has called Heath a "part-time" Prime Minister, and the daily Sun has accused "Skipper Ted" of "sitting bronzed and beaming at the helm while the economy of the U.K. sinks slowly." The squalls of outrage really blew up when Heath, intent on winning a place in the ocean-going Admiral's Cup Race in August, went to a qualifying race instead of the trooping of the color on the Queen's official birthday, traditionally attended by the P.M. Morning Cloud won, but Skipper Ted came back to find a motion in Commons signed by five Labor...
...Mather House tower was the one he had chosen-if, in fact, he was aware that the only windows which looked out on Harvard and the Charles were in the bathrooms. "Oh, yes," he said, "I don't believe in the Atlantic City 'I-can-see-the-ocean!' school of windows." He said he felt that the view of Peabody Terrace, The Riverside Press, and The Carter's Ink factory was "more interesting." It was also Carlhain's decision to put students' closets outside of their rooms, to make the bedrooms especially dark-"I see a student's room...
Meanwhile, as the police reclaimed the building, the women marched down Mass. Ave., spray painting cars, walls and sidewalks with the biological female symbol and liberation slogans. "The people are a great ocean-they cannot be contained" one banner read...