Word: oceaneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hard at work on his memoirs, aiming for publication early in 1977. Nearly every weekday morning at about 8:30, usually dressed in a dark suit and necktie, he boards a blue golf cart and rides the 200 yds. from his Casa Pacifica to the office overlooking the ocean. He rummages through his pre-presidential papers, tape-records observations and reminiscences, fills yellow legal pads with notes and narrative. He is often joined by Franklin Gannon, a former White House speechwriter and a Rhodes scholar, who helps organize the research and write the book. One Californian with San Clemente ties...
Inalienable Right. Ocean cruises are back in style, partly because the passenger knows fairly accurately in advance how much his vacation will cost. One sellout this summer was a Royal Cruise Line odyssey that flew tourists from Los Angeles to Athens for a 14-day cruise to Egypt, the Greek Isles and Israel...
Washington, Jefferson and their contemporaries believed that the U.S. should avoid "foreign entanglements." That conception lingered as the U.S., impregnable behind its ocean ramparts, moved across its own continent to ever-increasing prosperity. Under Wilson, this dominant policy was broken by World War I, but the concept regained force until it was finally shattered...
...impact. That is why they delayed its release until the beginning of the beach season. Says Zanuck: "There is no way that a bather who has seen or heard of the movie won't think of a great white shark when he puts his toe in the ocean." Vacationers are in fact flocking in ever greater numbers to the seashore. As for the jammed local moviehouses, they are treacherously playing on nerves. One Cape Cod theater runs a telephone tape that announces, "Jaws is playing. See it before you go swimming." Shark jokes are all black; in an interview...
...Soviet foothold in Somalia? From their headquarters at Berbera, the Russians would have the capability of dominating the southern approach to the Suez Canal. With missile-equipped naval vessels they could harass the sea lanes around the Persian Gulf, easily attaining naval dominance over large stretches of the Indian Ocean. On the other hand...