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...FISH, which are increasingly difficult to find among the wakes of powerboats, are now indicated by Aqua-Ear, an underwater sonic system that tells the fisherman where to cut off the engine. And the underwater swimmer, after years of face masks that cut vision from 180° to 75° and made the prettiest girl look like a sea monster, can now buy a new kind of contact lens: a tiny mask made of shatterproof plastic that covers the entire eyeball. Invented by Washington, D.C., Optometrist Alan Grant and Navy Captain Edward Beckman, the new lenses cost $175 a pair...
...word memoirs stems from the French for memory, and at 84, or almost, the Old Soldier has a more glory-filled one than most. On the 22nd anniversary of the Battle of Bataan, Long Island University draped the aqua-colored hood of a doctor of letters-his 17th honorary degree-on General of the Army Douglas MacArthur. "Sentiment has muddled many problems," said MacArthur, whose memoirs began in LIFE last week, "but has settled none. In the long advance of civilization, no facet has quite reached the importance of a full education...
...Ravine) - yet every properly baseball-batty Angeleno should have been glued to a television set watching the opening game of the showdown series between the Dodgers and the Cardinals in St. Louis. Thus, organizers of the Barry Goldwater rally had been having Technicolor night mares of rows of pink, aqua and maize stadium seats - all empty...
...portrait of George Washington. For "the bon vivant who dreams of rubbing shoulders with the international smart set, the gay dog who would risk all on a turn of the card, there is the 'Monaco' with 'Sea Mist Polish Finish, interior richly lined in 600 Aqua Supreme Cheney velvet, magnificently quilted and shirred, with matching jumbo bolster and coverlet...
Cousteau looks on the sea the way Daniel Boone looked on Kentucky, as a fine place to colonize. He thinks humans should do what porpoises, seals and other mammals have done already: adapt themselves to underwater living and beat the conservative fish at their own game. The Aqua-Lung, he says, is only the first step. It permits men to stay under water for considerable periods, but it involves a lot of expensive and bothersome apparatus. A better system, says Cousteau, would be to provide man with artificial "gills" through which his blood could flow and pick up oxygen. Even...