Word: oceaneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the CIA conceived the plan to raise a sunken Soviet submarine from the Pacific seabed, the agency turned to Hughes for cover. Summa organized the construction of the Glomar Explorer, under the guise of an oceanic mining and exploration ship. Its real mission remains the subject of suspicion. Despite Government denials, there is speculation that the ship may have been performing different duties-like implanting a weapons systern on the ocean floor. Last week the Government sought to dispel those suspicions by allowing newsmen to visit the huge barge that accompanied the Glomar Explorer on the mission. The craft...
Meanwhile, Hughes, who learned to fly as a teenager, built his own highly advanced H-l racer in which he set a world speed record of 352 m.p.h. in 1935. Three years later, Hughes, who was already predicting the era of ocean-spanning aircraft, flew round the world in 91 hr. 14 min., breaking the old record by four days...
Streaking along the ocean shore at 190 m.p.h., the Ferrari is a red blur against the blue, a waft of 500-h.p. combustion that arrives on the ebb of a parabolic whine. Screeching through a U-turn, the car speeds toward Ocean Boulevard. Seconds ahead of a pack that includes the cars of Mario Andretti and Austria's Niki Lauda, the Ferrari roars down the main thoroughfare past three porno theaters, two derelict hotels and assorted pawnshops. It will be a long afternoon for 36-year-old Swiss Racer Clay Regazzoni. Another hairpin right will bring him back...
...Center for Earth and Planetary Physics has moved very slowly, collecting only $1.2 million over the past two years, out of a total of $4.1 million needed. The drive, which will be completed in two years, is aimed at individuals and corporations that are interested in ecology, the ocean, and the environment. "We are interested in the stewardship of the earth and hope that those in science, academia, government and business concerned with where the earth is going will be tapped to give to the drive," Thompson said...
...Charles River is not like the Gulf Stream, springtime in New England is very different from spring in Florida (or anywhere else for that matter) and collegiate sailing in the Northeast in March is not at all similar to racing in the Southern Ocean Racing Circuit (SORC). So what else...