Word: oceaneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John Conklin, new to the AST, has designed a serviceable unit set. In the distance is a sky-and-seascape (I could do without the movable ocean-wave cutouts). To the right is a staircase, and situated here and there are a stone lantern, short columns and statuettes. Perhaps suggested by the Christmas-tree tinsel of the Twelfth Night season, the pervading color of all the solid objects and their trimmings is silver. A close inspection, however, reveals a number of human skulls outlined in the surface textures, as though to suggest--quite rightly--that there are sombre or tart...
Servan-Schreiber's brief tenure in the Cabinet came to an abrupt end after he read a wire-service report that France's nuclear-testing program in the Pacific Ocean would be resumed this month. Servan-Schreiber, a longtime opponent of testing, warned Chirac by telephone that he would speak out against the decision the next day. Chirac asked the volatile J.J.-S.S. to be "discreet," which was a bit like asking Martha Mitchell to abstain from telephone calls...
...largest, most awesome geological feature on the face of the earth: a 40,000-mile-long, quake-prone chain of mountains and valleys that winds around the planet like the stitching on a baseball. Yet because most of this mid-ocean ridge system lies deep beneath the waves, little is known about how its activity affects the formation of mineral deposits, changes the ocean floor and even causes the slow movement of entire continents. During the next three months French and American scientists hope to learn much more about the mysterious undersea area by prowling the depths some 200 miles...
Inky Darkness. The expedition is part of Project FAMOUS (for French-American Mid-Ocean Undersea Study), and is the climactic phase of a three-year international program. It will involve some 60 dives in three of the world's most extraordinary undersea ships: the U.S. Navy's tiny Alvin,* operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and the French deep-diving submersibles Archimède and Cyana...
...that sea water circulating through fractures in the ridge's rock formations may carry off some of these minerals and concentrate them elsewhere. By learning more about such elusive processes, scientists may some day be able to predict the location of minerals in more accessible regions of the ocean. Says Geologist-Diver Robert Ballard of Woods Hole: "The earth is alive. If we can understand how it works, if we can understand its psyche, we can then go about looking for its resources in a more efficient and sensible manner...