Word: oceaneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Venturi saw the everyday commercial vernacular-McDonald's, Ramada Inn, Burger King, Tastee-Freez, Fatburger. Kentucky Fried-as a source, just as the International Style had used the "styleless" metaphor of machinery, biplanes and ocean liners as its source...
...Gromyko last week perhaps the most difficult was one touching on a crucial aspect of arms control: SALT I's guarantee that neither side would interfere with the other's attempts to check, by electronic means or spy satellites, on whether there has been cheating. In Pacific Ocean tests last July, Moscow used a complex code to hide the data beamed from its warheads to Soviet listening stations. The purpose might have been to prevent the U.S. from fully monitoring the tests. Vance undoubtedly argued last week that SALT implicitly prohibits such coding and insisted that...
...engineers had devised a daring rescue. The new space shuttle, slated to make its first flight in September, would intercept Skylab, attach a small booster engine to one end, then fire it. Thus space planners could either raise Skylab.to a higher orbit or send it plunging harmlessly into an ocean. Last week, after weighing the chances of such an orbital operation, NASA conceded defeat. That means Skylab will expire in a meteorite-like death that could scatter parts of the space station on populated regions...
...there and I'm gonna get me some). They wrote it. And Charlie Brown (Who walks in the classroom cool and slow?/ Who calls the English teacher "Daddy-O"?). They wrote that too. As well as Searchin'. And Poison Ivy (You 're gonna need an ocean/ Of Calamine lotion ...). And Smokey Joe's Cafe. And Yakety Yak. And Saved...
...small nonmilitary satellite-tracking station in the Seychelles, an idyllic string of some 90 islands stretching for 600 miles in the Indian Ocean off the east coast of Africa. It also has an interest in seeing that the islands, which in 1976 became an independent nation in the British Commonwealth, do not serve as a base for Soviet nuclear submarines. The islands are so quiet that even the seizure of power in a relatively nonviolent coup by the socialist Seychelles People's United Party last year did not overly worry Washington. Last week, however, Western intelligence agencies were fretting over...