Word: skylark
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...General Motors is also pushing the intermediates, featuring minor changes suggested by success of the 1966 Toronado. The 1968 Tem pest, for example, has an abbreviated rear and an elongated front, giving it the look of a chunky road racer. For its own sporty look, Buick has taken its Skylark and gone back to a sweeping, chrome-lined silhouette that became popular ten years...
Shortly after noon Tuesday, Thresher was 30 miles southeast of Portsmouth. With the rescue ship Skylark standing by, the submarine's klaxon blared, and she buried her nose in the Atlantic for her first series of test dives-all shallow. She performed perfectly, and at 9 p.m. Tuesday headed for deep water 220 miles off Cape Cod. Next morning, with Skylark bobbing above and maintaining constant contact with sonar and telephone, Thresher glided through a set of medium-depth dives. Her skipper, Lieut. Commander John Wesley Harvey, 35, decided that she was ready for the maximum test. None...
...Death. The water was 8,400 ft. deep, and Harvey began easing down in a series of 100-ft. descents. As is normal in such dives, increasing water pressure set up a cacophony of staccato pops and grinding groans in the sub's hull. Routine messages flashed to Skylark on the surface. At 9:17 came the last message. It was garbled. But communications with deep-diving subs are always difficult, and the men on Skylark felt little concern...
...Thresher was silent. Calmly at first, the Skylark tried to regain contact. Crewmen tried sonar, telephone and Morse code transmissions to raise Thresher. With growing fear, they began exploding small depth charges every ten minutes, hoping Commander Harvey would respond to those alarm signals. They kept up a drumfire of sonar and telephone messages-one every minute. But Thresher did not answer...
...Skylark radioed the submarine base at New London, Conn., reported that the submarine had been out of touch for an hour and 47 minutes. Even this created no desperate alarm. Perhaps Harvey, his communications out, was simply riding out heavy surface seas in the tranquil depths. But by midafternoon, with Thresher silent for six hours, Navy patrol planes began circling the area. At 3:35 a hot line buzzed in the Pentagon office of Admiral George Anderson, Chief of Naval Operations. He learned for the first time that Thresher had disappeared. Within half an hour President Kennedy...