Word: aqua
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attention goes to the American standards-football, basketball, baseball, track, swimming, and so on. It uses blimps and helicopters to film events like auto races-blimps to show the overall field and helicopters to swoop down and give an idea of the speed of the cars. It uses Aqua-Lungs to get under competitive swimmers and shoot them from the only angle that really shows their styles and turns. It has even adapted missile-tracking devices as one way to keep a camera trained on a sky diver falling at 160 m.p.h. And always, in any sport, the commentary...
Protected Treasure. The invention of Aqua-Lungs, says University of Pennsylvania Archaeologist George F. Bass in The American Scholar, has opened rich opportunities for students of the past. Ever since the Stone Age. says Bass, men have sailed the Mediterranean. Often their ships came to grief, carrying to the bottom samples of the goods and treasures of each period of history. Under the deep, still water, the wrecks and their cargoes rested for thousands of years, protected from the plundering hands of later generations...
Then came Aqua-Lungs, and sportsmen skindivers rummaged in ancient wrecks. They pulled out interesting souvenirs, but since they lacked the archaeologists' precise knowledge and delicate skills, they learned next to nothing. The wrecks are now in trained hands. Archaeologists themselves are dressing in flippers and Aqua-Lungs and diving to ancient wrecks to excavate them properly...
Seattle, Wash., Aqua Theater: Annie, Get Your Gun, starring Giselle MacKenzie...
...housewife who feels like the Sorcerer's Apprentice every time she mops the floor, there is SiphO Products' Aqua-Vac-an automatic, nonelectric floor washer and dryer. Hook one end of Aqua-Vac's 20-ft. vinyl tube to a special adapter on the faucet in the kitchen sink, turn on the water, and the cellulose sponge at the business end spreads water over the floor to make a lather with previously sprinkled scouring powder. When the swabbing is done, a twist of the faucet adapter turns Aqua-Vac into a siphon that slurps up the dirty...