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Bikini-clad women sipping vodka on an ocean liner in the Caribbean. Crates of computers being unloaded in Hong Kong harbor. A cruise ship offering three- month tours with elegant accommodations. These are not the images people conjure up when they think of the Soviet menace. But the Soviet Union's fleet of about 2,500 merchant ships, now the world's sixth largest, has been invading both cargo and cruise markets around the world, underbidding competitors by 40% and more. In the past two decades, the Soviet Union has doubled the number of its ships and tripled the tonnage...
...sturdy submersible that photographed the Titanic has a legendary forebear: it was named for the ship sailed by the Greek hero Jason as he searched for the Golden Fleece. And roam the Argo does, skimming just above the ocean floor like a giant sled. Designed to map deep-sea hills and gulleys, the craft can descend to depths of 20,000 ft. and remain underwater indefinitely. Essentially, it is a 16-ft.-long cage fashioned to protect a clutch of strobe lights, side-scanning sonar devices and an array of cameras from marine flotsam. The entire contraption is tied umbilically...
...rivals CBS's. Each week Tartikoff hosts a "Santa Barbara lunch," in which he and his staff watch the network's newest soap and discuss how it and other daytime fare can be improved. Tinker knows habits die hard among the soap watchers. "It's like turning an ocean liner around," he says...
...sound of machine gunfire resolves into a pulsing electronic rock beat. Staccato images flash by. A flock of pink-plumed flamingos. Bikini- clad girls on the beach. Race horses bursting from the starting gate. The ocean speeding by under the bow of a boat. And, of course, the familiar art deco logo, glowing in vibrant turquoise and pink...
...Titanic was her name, the largest and most luxurious ocean liner afloat. She weighed 46,328 gross tons and was 882.5 ft., roughly 3 1/2 city blocks long. Her engines, developing 55,000 h.p., could drive the Titanic at a speed of up to 25 knots. And the luxury suites (price: $4,350 for an Atlantic crossing) contained elegant furnishings, sumptuous draperies and even private promenade decks...