Word: oceaneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...important and largely secret missile defense for the carriers. The Sixth Fleet commanders are well aware that their carriers are potential floating targets in an age of surface-to-surface missiles; they also feel that their multiple early-warning defense systems are more than capable of shielding their mobile ocean-borne airfields from disaster...
...customarily roams while Soviet vessels lie in Syrian and North African ports-except for a few "tattletale" scouts dogging American carriers-the roles were reversed. The Soviet fleet was out in force and the Sixth Fleet was doing the tattling. Other Soviet task forces were sighted in the Pacific Ocean, in the Sea of Japan and off the Philippines...
...ships and 100 submarines, along with land-based aircraft, were involved in a massive naval exercise, the first such worldwide maneuvers that the Soviet navy has run in five years. The Soviets dubbed the maneuvers "Spring"; the West called them "Okean 1975," a reference to the Okean (Russian for ocean) maneuvers that the Soviets held in 1970. The new exercise was apparently scheduled for the same length of time as the last one-about three weeks...
...never found either my high school principal or cliches terribly insightful, but this metaphor seems strangely applicable to Harvard. Its educational ocean is filled with more than the normal complement of sharks and barracuda, electric eels and suckers: and to most people, just how they will find their place in the land of Neptune-in-Cambridge is as mysterious as the location of sunken Atlantis...
...there is a middle way, one now being tested in Suffolk County on the eastern end of Long Island. Famous for the Hamptons, a string of summer resort communities along the Atlantic Ocean beaches, Suffolk has 40,000 acres of cropland that has made it the most productive farm county in New York State. The land is also perfect for developers-pancake flat and on the edge of the sprawling metropolitan area formed by New York City and its neighboring Nassau County suburbs. To keep the developers from obliterating Suffolk's rural character, the citizens of the county have...