Word: oceaneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Industrialist Robert McCulloch, 59, arranged the improbable purchase of the London Bridge, which was not exactly falling down into the Thames but was badly in need of replacement. The granite balustrades, corbels, facings, cutwaters and retaining walls-10,000 tons in all-were shipped block by block across ocean and desert to be reconstructed in Lake Havasu City, an Arizona town developed from scratch by McCulloch Oil. Buying a bridge, then building a canal to divert water from the Colorado River for the bridge to cross, was an act of commercial savvy as well as historical piety...
...from which IRBMs can be fired over a 2,000-mile range to barren Sinkiang Province. But there are no signs that China is even ready to test a full-blown intercontinental ballistic missile, which would have to be lofted over a 6,000-mile range into the Indian Ocean...
...three crew members managed to scramble to safety. But their box lunches went to the bottom with Alvin-5,000 feet down. Those uneaten meals, it was revealed in Science last week, eventually provided researchers with valuable new information about the workings of life processes in the ocean depths...
...stubbornest rebellions-the civil war in the southern Sudan and the Eritrean uprising in northern Ethiopia-are extensions of the Arab-Israeli conflict to the north. The situation in the Sudan has been further complicated by the Soviet Union's powerful thrust toward the Indian Ocean...
...there are an estimated 325 Russian advisers. Last year the Russians began to construct a naval base at Port Sudan on the Red Sea, an installation that will be useful, once the Suez Canal is reopened, in the further expansion of Soviet naval activity in the Indian Ocean. Now the Russians are installing SA-2 antiaircraft missiles to defend the base...