Word: subs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pitifully few sub-plots involved two lovers, played by Macaire Henderson and Scott Atherton. Henderson brings a fine voice and strong stage presence to the show, while Atherton only manages to look ill-at-ease...
...Glomar Explorer haul up a 5,500-ton weight from the ocean floor? Taking cues from tiny radio beacons placed near the sub, a computer aboard the ship directed an array of water jets and propellers that kept the Glomar-and its suspended claws-in place against waves and currents...
After careful analysis, which included photographing certain parts and taking metallurgical samples for further study, the sub's hull was broken up into sections, some of which were compacted like old cars and jettisoned at various spots in the Pacific...
Although the accommodations for the 80-man crew were spartan by U.S. standards, the sub itself was skillfully designed for silent running, and construction details showed that the Russians "can turn these things out like Mexican fritters," as one Navy expert put it. Before the sub was retrieved, the U.S. knew almost nothing about Soviet torpedo technology. The Navy had also underestimated the sub's firepower. Its short-range (about 700 nautical miles) SSN5 missiles carried hydrogen-bomb warheads packing a much bigger punch than the uranium-fission weapons that were once the staple of Soviet defense. Very possibly...
...about 400. The racking began early on, when the crewmen were told what the ship's real mission was and given secrecy pledges to sign. Says one crewman: "They told us that they were the same kind of documents Daniel Ellsberg had signed." During the lift of the sub, the ship heaved and groaned so much that some feared it would tear apart. Others fretted about the Soviet spy trawlers that were frequently spotted. Says Joe Rodriguez, who was recruited for the mission out of a Hollywood hairdressing salon because he had served a Navy stint on an aircraft...