Word: oceaneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This policy requires shippers to use U.S.-flag vessels to move varying percentages of certain cargoes-half of all goods shipped to the Soviet Union, for instance. But not a single U.S.-flag ship is left that is efficient enough for trans-ocean commerce and small enough to fit through the seaway locks-so the law in effect forbids many U.S. shippers to use the Great Lakes...
...will notice him, disinterestedly portrays a heist artist named Walter Upjohn Ballantine, who, in the words of an admirer, is the possessor of "the most spectacular rap sheet" in the FBI'S files. Among Ballantine's most highly regarded credits are shanghaiing an oil tanker in mid-ocean and stealing a million dollars in nickels from the U.S. mint. A crony named Al G. Karp, who looks like a softball that sweats, springs him from the pen to enlist his help on a new scheme: to break a bank called Mission Bell in suburban Los Angeles...
...summer as part of Project FAMOUS, the American submersible Alvin and its French counterparts Archimède and Cyana explored one of the earth's last great frontiers: the rugged, seismically active rift valley that cleaves the floor of the Atlantic almost all the way from the Arctic Ocean to Antarctica. Last week, as the scientists who took part in FAMOUS (for French-American Mid-Ocean Undersea Study) returned home from their expedition to the bottom of the sea, they reported that their little craft had discovered important new clues to the secrets of continental drift...
...prolific naval architect whose Manhattan firm laid down lines for 700 vessels ranging from mine layers to troopships during World War II but was best known for his designs of sailboats, among them the popular 11½-ft. Penguin dinghy, Bounty II, one of the first successful fiber-glass ocean racers, and the twelve-meter sloop Weatherly, winner of the 1962 America's Cup races; in New Rochelle...
...trip, chronicled by Lipscomb père in Cutting Loose, was viewed by the boys as a lark. "All I wanted was to have fun," explained young Lipscomb. What he got was a lesson in growing up. The boys withstood the ocean in fine style...