Word: whaled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Covering a political convention is like melting down a sperm whale...
When the submarine Nautilus in Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea needed a new air supply, it came to the surface, blew noisily like a winded whale and filled its reservoirs with two days' supply of compressed air. This simple system was good enough for the imaginary Nautilus of 1870, but the real SS(N) Nautilus and her nuclear sisters of the modern U.S. Navy need better air, and are designed to stay submerged for months on end. In Naval Research Reviews the Naval Research Laboratory tells how their little worlds are kept almost...
...Chevy Show (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). The King and Queen of cow country, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, work out in a waterlogged rodeo. The Aquarodeo at Marineland, Calif. includes shark busting and shark roping, a bat ray roundup and bareback whale riding...
...found most of its greatest treasures, such as the tomb of Count Folch of Cardona's family with its 16th century bas-relief (opposite), had been mutilated. A superb object of contemplation even now, the relief symbolizes life after death through the story of Jonah and the whale. Jonah is shown spewed up from the whale's belly onto the life-strewn shore...
...Dead Sea, customers will float in glass-bottom boats and look down upon Sodom and Gomorrah. A dark journey through the thoracic cavity of Jonah's whale will end up in a wild slide down the monster's tongue. Camels will clunk along through Egypt's Valley of the Kings, taking clients to the pyramids. Donkeys will bear the weight of multitudes from Nazareth to Jerusalem...