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...last February from Monaco. For the opener of his series, which will run to at least twelve specials over a five-year span, his converted minesweeper Calypso pursued sharks in the waters of the Middle East. For half a year, Cousteau's crew was aswirl in terrifying hammerheads, blue whalers and tiger, shovelnose and white-tipped sharks-"by whatever name," the narrator said of the breed, "a fearsome brute, a perfect killing machine." But Cousteau's red-capped divers fearlessly ran off experiments right in their menacing midst. One crewman rode the back of a 60-ton whale...
...uphill trail got tougher and more slippery all the time. But by midafternoon, even the tenderest feet were firmly planted on a windblown, grassy highland. Off in the distance gleamed San Francisco Bay; beyond it, looming out of the sea itself, was Mount Tamalpais, its summit aswirl with purpling, swiftly scudding clouds. The hikers' blisters were forgotten now, the land had worked its magic; there were no newcomers any more...
...girl anticipates her grandmother's suicide with a picture. Trees are aswirl in the heart of an olive forest...
...that the Democrats played repeatedly over Baltimore's radio stations. In a city with a 4-t01 Democratic registration advantage, luck did seem to play a part in McKeldin's victory. Goodman, a former state senator, had been accounted a pretty good mayor, who kept city hall aswirl with housing, traffic-safety, street-maintenance and law-enforcement plans. But he is a dull speaker with little appeal to the voters. McKeldin, on the other hand, is a onetime Dale Carnegie Institute instructor who has obviously kissed the Blarney stone; his oratory earned him the honor of nominating Dwight...
...Tennessee was once a treacherous river, red with the topsoil it carried away by summer, aswirl with the houses, horses and barns its floods destroyed by winter. Today, more than two-thirds of its 900-mile length is virtually one tamed and tranquil lake. Hundreds of recreation sites occupy the valley's 10,000 miles of shoreline. Its waters provide one of the world's finest inland recreation areas, yield fishermen some 10,000,000 Ibs. a year of 23 species of fish...