Word: subs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ships zeroed in on Contact Delta. The research ship Robert D. Conrad, of Columbia University's Lament Geological Observatory, dredged up 15 envelopes of gaskets, and the Atlantis found two broken pieces of battery plates. Both gaskets and plates are almost certain to have come from the lost sub. Latest pictures from Conrad show an air bottle of a type used on Thresher and a broken piece of pipe* that was probably once a part of the sub's internal plumbing...
...glare by a special awning at the White Sands Missile Range, he saw an Army Honest John missile land directly on target in a burst of phosphorescence 71/2 miles away and a Nike Hercules intercept a sister missile overhead. Then off to the Navy's show-sub hunters firing rocket-launched torpedoes and Phantom fighters screaming above the carrier Kitty Hawk at the speed of sound to fire their Sparrow III missiles with deadly accuracy...
...nuclear sub went down April 10 during a test dive with 129 men aboard 220 miles off Boston...
...sportswriters were calling the race "the Miracle Mile." "If all the 'Miracle Miles' were laid end to end," protested one old track hand, "they'd reach straight to heaven." But superlatives could be forgiven. Besides Snell and Beatty, the eight-man field included three other sub-4-min. milers: California's Jim Grelle (3 min. 56.7 sec.), and Bobby Seaman (3 min. 58 sec.), Marine Lieut. Gary Weisiger (3 min. 58.1 sec.). Each had a plan for winning: beat Snell. "If we don't beat this guy on his honeymoon," said Weisiger...
...Navy. As versatile as any are the Navy's SEALS, who must be underwater demolition experts, parachutists, land survival specialists and, after a fashion, submariners. Two mothballed troop-carrying subs have been reactivated for use by SEALS, who are skilled at making landings from them. The SEALS are trained, for example, to parachute behind enemy lines to locate downed flyers, lead them to the coast, then hustle them aboard a recovery sub. Based at Little Creek, Va., and Coronado, Calif., the two SEAL teams (60 men to a team), train at their bases or in the Virgin Islands...