Word: oceaneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From high over the Atlantic Ocean last week Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev sent a warm greeting to President Nixon. "Flying close to the shores of the United States of America," radioed Brezhnev, "I express my very best wishes to you, Mr. President, to the Government and the people of the U.S. I am confident that relations between the Soviet Union and the U.S. will continue to develop to the benefit of our peoples and in the interests of international security and peace." Two hours later, Brezhnev's blue and white Ilyushin-62 jet landed in Havana...
...tracked far beyond the research labs where they were first detected. Today, ultrasonics, otherwise known as the science of noiseless sound, has become one of the more versatile tools of technology. Vibrating at roughly 18,000 or more cycles per second, quiet bursts of ultrasonic energy can probe the ocean depths, clean teeth, cut through steel, even look for brain damage. In their latest incarnation, ultrasonic waves are being put to work in a novel sewage-treatment system...
...observations already reported from space. Astronaut Gibson, a solar physicist by training, managed to photograph for the first time the very beginnings of a solar flare - a sudden, violent release of enormous energy from the sun's interior. Looking earthward, the astronauts observed strange, swirling eddies in warm ocean currents that are apparently involved in the exchange of heat between water and atmosphere, an important factor in global weather and climate...
...canal might serve as a deterrent to future fighting around it. However, the Pentagon is somewhat less enthusiastic about the project. Military strategists point out that the reopening of the canal would give Soviet naval vessels much greater maneuverability than they now have in steaming between the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean-the very waters in which they are already putting on big shows of new strength...
...materials. So the U.S. is increasingly at the mercy of inflationary trends in world commodity markets. American inflation has been fanned in recent years by such disparate events as the Arab-Israeli war, a low Soviet grain harvest, copper-industry strikes in Africa and even a change in the ocean currents off Peru (which temporarily wiped out the catch of anchovies, a key source of protein in animal feeds, causing panicky foreign buyers to bid up the price of U.S. soybeans...