Word: oceaneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whales and dolphins such friendly and seemingly sensitive creatures, never known to attack a human being unless harpooned? It may be that echolocation, an adaptation to the eternal darkness of the ocean's depths, accounts for the unique personality of the whale. In echolocation, the whale projects high frequency sounds forwards. The sound waves bounce off objects, then return to the sound chamber in his forehead. He can tell the distance of the object by the strength of the returning sound wave. But these high frequency sound waves penetrate skin as well as water. Dr. John Sutphen, interested in diagnosing...
...belly, like the world was all empty. I missed them whales when they were gone. 'Tis strange. Some folks say as whales are only fish. No, bye! They's too smart for fish. I don't say as what they's not the smartest creatures in God's ocean. Aye and maybe out of it as well...
...result so far is something of a geo-political standoff. The Soviets have lost their primary Indian Ocean naval facility, but can probably find some kind of alternative-possibly on Ethiopia's Red Sea coastline. They have exchanged the friendship of Somalia for that of a far bigger country. But Ethiopia is an extremely fragile ally that is fighting wars in its northern province of Eritrea as well as the Ogaden, and is led by an unstable junta. Only last week the junta executed its second in command, Lieut. Colonel Atnafu Abate...
...tweed hat for a headdress. The star of My Fair Lady is a very different kind of gent in his latest film, Shalimar. This time Rex Harrison plays a chap called Sir John, "the world's greatest jewel thief," who lives on an island in the Indian Ocean with his own private army. "The character I play is different from the usual," says Rex. "Sir John is slightly tougher and demented and more sadistic." He is also crafty. To scare off a band of would-be murderers, he dons his mad hat and plays a witch doctor...
Hardest hit is Puerto Rico, which is almost entirely dependent on ocean shipping for its survival. About 80% of shipments to San Juan from Gulf and East Coast ports have been blocked. Fomento, the island's economic development agency, issued a report saying that at the end of the strike's sixth week-about now-67,000 jobs would be threatened, adding to unemployment that already stands at 194,000. At least 60 companies have shut down, and 3 million man-days of work have already been lost...