Word: tugboats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senate Commerce committee hearings last week. Some maritime experts argue that the Coast Guard has reason to go slow on safety. They say that a tough approach would risk retaliation from other countries, who could make life difficult for U.S. ships in foreign ports by jacking up tugboat fees or other nuisance gestures. Says a Washington maritime lawyer: "The risk of retaliation is not a trivial one. It is always a dangerous risk to tighten procedures." But increasingly, Washington will have to balance that risk against the rising public concern in the U.S. about the environmental hazard posed...
...Norwegian innovation, two CONDEEPs have been put in place in the British sector; each cost $300 million and has a storage capacity of 900,000 bbl. The tow alone, 163 miles to one field and 225 miles to another, cost $2.7 million per unit - the biggest and most expensive tugboat operation in history...
Aqua Sans systems have been adapted to existing facilities in Mount Rushmore's visitor center, a New York tugboat and a naval barracks at Annapolis, Md. They work well. But right now Aqua Sans is too expensive to be widely used. Each flush costs .8? (v. .035? for a conventional toilet). Still, it fills a definite need in places with plenty of business but scant water supplies: for example, in desert gas stations or mountaintop rest rooms, and, of course, on ships...
...rest, Van der Kamp returned in the dark of night with the other three crew members, armed (according to the disk jockeys) with guns. The deejays tried to defend their quarters with iron bars but were outmuscled by the sailors. The captain cut the anchor, and a small tugboat dragged Mi Amigo into Amsterdam harbor. Charges and countercharges flew; a Dutch shipping inspector declared Mi Amigo unsafe to sail...
...Road in the life of a kook. The narrative spans a three day bum weekend and interlude to a life that is itself something of a bum weekend. Fogarty, an Irish Catholic no account from Brooklyn is everything from a small time swashbuckler the's a deckhand on a tugboat) to a cult figure among the Radical chic He's also a dollmaker whose work even the Times has stopped to review. I Fogarty hates priests, quarrels with an incomplete slob of a white and lives with a Manhattan bound groupte cum socialite Generally boisterous and malcontent Fogarty has only...