Word: ship
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...recent weeks, the Soviets have put yet another x into the equation. To the Soviet eskadra (squadron) in the Mediterranean, which has numbered as many as 52 ships, including two cruisers, ten submarines and six intelligence-collecting trawlers, the Russians added an entirely new kind of vessel on the face of the oceans-a multipurpose, missile-firing helicopter carrier. The Russians so far have built no Western-style aircraft carriers because they consider them vulnerable to missile attack. In stead, into the Mediterranean glided the Moskva, a sleek 25,000-ton vessel that combines the features of a cruiser...
Altering the Balance. In the opinion of U.S. strategists, the Soviet Mediterranean force, lacking big aircraft carriers, would be no match for the Sixth Fleet, with its 50 combat ships, including two carriers and two cruisers, 200 aircraft and 25,000 men. The Russian squadron in the Mediterranean is, in fact, smaller than the Italian navy. But as U.S. Admiral Horacio Rivero, commander of NATO forces in Southern Europe, notes: "While the Soviet flotilla is a potential military threat, its greatest importance is political and psychological. The number of ships is not too important. The presence of one ship...
Shortly after liftoff, Apollc 8 will go into a "parking" orbit 115 miles above the earth. If mission controllers are satisfied that all the ship's systems are working properly, the final stage of the Saturn booster will be reignited during the second or third orbit. The resulting thrust will increase Apollo's speed to 24,000 m.p.h.-enough to free it from the earth's environment and send it on a curving trajectory toward the moon...
...Kitchen. Aero-Go is also building bearings for other uses. It has put them on experimental models of small, airborne cars propelled by large fans and designed to move people as easily as planes. The Navy plans to use the bearings for hauling giant ship propellers and shafts around the Pearl Harbor shipyard. NBC has bought air bearings to shift heavy bleachers around TV studios, and several manufacturers are already using them to move heavy equipment and products across factory floors. Air bearings placed under a one-ton machine, for example, enable a workman to move it across a smooth...
Blunden's revival technique in this historical novel is remarkably restrained. Even when dealing with the ship's celebrated Captain James Cook, he has refused all concession to the popular taste for heightening drama and homogenizing history. As a consequence, the book may be read only by Blunden's fellow countrymen in Australia-a land so new and short on history that its people tend to brood protectively over what little they have-or by students interested in Cook's voyages. But this would be a pity. Dry and slow as the book often is, Blunden...