Word: ballast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world's tonnage could travel it fully loaded, as could tankers up to 70,000 tons. Even supertankers, whose fully loaded hulls are too deep for the canal's 38-ft. channels, could take twelve days off the southbound trip by sailing under light ballast through Suez to the Persian Gulf refineries rather than sailing around the Cape of Good Hope...
...June of 1770, midway on his first voyage around the globe, England's Captain James Cook was navigating the Endeavour along Australia's Great Barrier Reef when his ship suddenly grated to a stop on jagged coral shoals. The resourceful Cook saved his vessel by heaving ballast overboard, along with six heavy cast-iron cannon; the Endeavour floated free on the high tides. In the years since, numerous searchers have tried to recover the cannon. Finally last week, a team from Philadelphia's Academy of Natural Sciences, using a magnetic device suspended from a helicopter, succeeded...
...lawn," and also to reassess the new political horizon. That reappraisal, if some of Robert Kennedy's top aides have their way, will force Humphrey closer to the late Senator's position on Viet Nam, and may even persuade the Vice President that he should ballast his ticket with Ted Kennedy. In fact, the surviving brother is known to be high on Humphrey's list of running mates, along with Senators Fred Harris of Oklahoma and Edmund Muskie of Maine. How Kennedy feels about the idea is still unknown-perhaps even to the Massachusetts Senator...
...Apollo's parachute system had to be enlarged or redesigned for safe landing at greater weight, and redundant systems on board have been eliminated for a weight reduction of 58 Ibs. Low hopes to peel 400 Ibs. more off Apollo by eliminating the spacecraft's lead ballast. So critical is the weight factor that even metal brackets inside Apollo are being examined for possible perforation to save additional ounces. "So far," Low said last week, "the scheme looks promising...
Already 200,000-ton tankers ply the seas; 300,000-ton vessels are on order, and the advent of 500,000-ton jumbo tankers is fast approaching. Even under normal circumstances, such ships slowly foul the sea with oily tank washings, bilge and ballast water...