Word: oceaneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Glomar Explorer haul up a 5,500-ton weight from the ocean floor? Taking cues from tiny radio beacons placed near the sub, a computer aboard the ship directed an array of water jets and propellers that kept the Glomar-and its suspended claws-in place against waves and currents...
...with a tall derrick amidships and towing a submersible barge the size of a football field, sailed from Long Beach, Calif., toward an area in the Pacific 750 miles northwest of Hawaii. Publicly proclaimed to be a special vessel built by Howard Hughes to mine mineral deposits from the ocean floor, the Glomar was actually on a CIA mission approved by the White House. Its code name: Project Jennifer. Its aim: to salvage a Soviet submarine that had plunged 16,000ft. to the bottom of the Pacific in 1968 after an explosion...
Connoisseurs find the product slightly mushy, even when consumed with vodka. But at $5.90 a lb., compared with $24.50 for the real thing, there has been nothing soft about initial sales of the fake caviar. At the Okean (Ocean) fish store on Moscow's Prospekt Mira, where the pilot plant's output is sold, every scrap of the entire daily production sells out in only two hours...
...township, and the Indians naively sold off their land, bit by bit. Today 500 Wampanoag are still living in Mashpee (total pop. 2,500), but new housing developments now surround the salt marshes and ponds that the Indians once raked for scallops and quahogs. Mashpee's expensive ocean-front property is dotted with signs that shout PRIVATE, KEEP OUT! Standing on a windswept bluff above a beach road blockaded by boulders, Russell Peters, 47, president of the Mashpee Wampanoag tribal council, bitterly told TIME's David Wood: "I haven't set foot on this beach...
...Yale's team is like an onion," Sadowsky said in a paraphrase of Mao. "You may think it is dead but its heart is alive underneath that skin. The people are like the ocean," he said...