Word: subbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...through the waters. The U.S. employs ultrasensitive infra-red devices in satellites and planes to look down into the oceans and detect the scars. Submarines also give off what Navymen call "an electronic signature" that, like a human fingerprint, is unique. The signature is the sum total of the sub's sounds?the beat of its screw, thump of its pumps, rustle of its wake. To detect those signatures, the U.S. uses a variety of acute listening devices, including two networks of sonar cables, called Caesar and Sosus, that are placed in the ocean depths in areas frequented by Soviet...
...Sub Hunting. A sonar operator needs a highly trained ear to sort out the sounds of the sea. Apart from a sub's noises, the sea is full of other sounds, a syncopated symphony of crackling shrimp, clucking sea robins and grunting whales; there is even the engine-like throb of an unknown sea animal that Navymen call the "130-r.p.h. fish." Once the various sounds have been sorted out, the American sub hunters flash the details of the sub's signature to a Navy base in the U.S., where a computer has memorized the signatures of the vast majority...
...some occasions, the U.S. hunters pounce on the Soviet sub in what the Navy euphemistically calls "informal exercises." The object of the chase is to give the Soviet submarines a healthy respect for the capabilities of the U.S. Navy's ASW (Antisubmarine Warfare) forces. In a duel reminiscent of the fictional shoot-out in The Bedford Incident, a U.S. destroyer locks on the enemy boat and tracks his every move. Sometimes, to impress on the Soviets the futility of their plight, an American skipper will play The Volga Boatmen over and over again on his destroyer's underwater sound system...
McCurdy plans to send record-setters Jim Baker and Roy Shaw against one another in the mile. They will almost certainly run everyone else into the ground. In fact, McCurdy harbors hopes that one of these days one of these two will push the other to the first sub-four minute mile in Harvard history...
Informed sources report that the recommendations are now finally being considered in the White House. The probable reason for Wirtz's delay of the report should cause the President to reject its recommendations: Wirtz doesn't think the country needs educational or occupational deferments. In testimony before a Senate sub-committee last March, he said that once the present system is changed, there will be no justification on the basis of civilian manpower needs for any educational or occupational deferments. The IAC had assumed the continued use of the oldest-first system in making its recommendations. At the very most...