Word: oceaneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leavening. Favorite hobbies include, not surprisingly, chess and bridge. Stark and Camerer, however, seem drawn to nonscientific pastimes-Stark to softball and ragtime music on the trombone. Camerer to journalism. He has been writing stories about fashions and fishing for the Beachcomber, a free weekly published in Ocean City...
...want to do is quietly live out my life here by the Pacific Ocean. But I'm being hounded, hounded, hounded. What is it that Richard Nixon wants...
...huge French colonial empire in Africa that as recently as 1958 included 15 states. The others are all independent nations today. Troops of the fabled French Foreign Legion will stay on in Djibouti to help keep order. Reunion island and the Comoro island of Mayotte, both in the Indian Ocean, remain as overseas departments of France, with representatives in the National Assembly in Paris...
There are many other frontiers. Exploration of the ocean depths may become a new counterpart of the space program. Scientists are engaged in-a fascinating search into the structure of atomic particles. "This is a new world of muons, of quarks, and we shall have to invent a new language to cope with it," says M.I.T. Physicist Victor Weisskopf. Others are exploring DNA, the stuff of life itself...
...summer of 1975, William F. Buckley Jr. made an Atlantic crossing - chronicled in his book Airborne - aboard his 60-ft. cutter Cyrano. Says Buckley: "All adventure is now reactionary." With loran, radar, autopilot and vintage wines, Buckley was not exactly blown across the ocean on a naked raft. Even the most venturesome solitary sailors today - men like Sir Francis Chichester, who circumnavigated the globe in 1966-67 in his 53-ft. boat Gipsy Moth IV - have the advantage of sophisticated hull and sail design. Says Tristan Jones, a small, bearded Welsh sailor who has circumnavigated the globe three times, crossed...