Word: slips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Economic Opportunity, responsibility for coordinating civil rights affairs. In addition, Humphrey inherited the chairmanship of the Space and Peace Corps councils and membership on the National Security Council. "If Hubert had to take over the Government to night," says a White House hand, "there would not be one slip because of lack of information on Humphrey's part. He is in on literally everything...
...bomb rested, half shrouded by its own grey parachute, on a steep 70° slope on the ocean floor. The danger was that it might slip farther down the incline into the craggy depths of a 3,000-ft. undersea valley in which the midget submarines could not maneuver. With that consideration in mind, Rear Admiral William S. Guest, 52, commander of the 15-vessel Task Force 65, put into action Plan Charlie to recover the unarmed 20-megaton weapon...
...main job went to the same submersible that originally found the bomb: Alvin, a 22-ft. deep-sea research ship whose bulbous shape resembles a puffed-up blowfish. Using its mechanical claw, Alvin was supposed to slip a cable around the bomb so that it could be towed by surface ship up the incline to a plateau 2,000 ft. below the sea's surface. Once it was on level ground, the bomb would be clamped in steel jaws and brought up to the 400-ft. level, where Navy divers would inspect the bomb. If it was intact...
Downshift Slip. Naturally, everyone else worried about the Fords-and why not? There were 13 of them in the race...
...clearly showed the H-bomb, apparently completely intact, partly covered by its own grey parachute. The recovery plan called for nudging the bomb along the sea's bottom for some distance until it rested on level ground. When that was done, the Alvin would use her claw to slip a cable around the bomb, and the U.S.S. Hoist would winch it on board for immediate trans port...