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...place in the world where the man who has everything can get lessons in how to handle America's latest aquatic tool (or toy). Sitting on a special launching ramp at the back end of Aquatic, the machine in question suggests a curious cross between a wind-up bathtub toy and a James Bond movie. It is a lemon-hued, one-man submarine, the S 250, a 12-ft.-long, 2,250-lb. vessel that can be run by just about anybody, dive safely to 250 ft., stay submerged for an hour at a time and costs...
After nearly an hour, Peacock cut the twin Mercuries. "This is the spot!" he called. We floated noiselessly on a dusky patch of sea. The jagged line on the Fathometer confirmed that we were in the swordfish's favorite haunt, a 1,100-ft.-deep stretch of the bathtub-warm Gulf Stream. Broadbills normally stay hundreds of feet down-one reason they are so hard to catch-but in the early '70s, Cuban refugee fishermen discovered that these fish rose from the depths at night, apparently to feed on squid that in turn were feeding on microscopic plankton...
...Matisse. At a retrospective exhibition of his father's work at Los Angeles' Stuart David Galleries, De Niro Jr. was on hand for the opening. "I like my father's paintings very much," he says. In fact, Dad's first effort, Negress in a Bathtub, is now in his son's possession -but consigned to the closet till he finds the right place to hang...
...fashioned fingerprint work did the rest. Though the bandits were supposed to wear gloves, some of them slipped up. A clear print was found on a Monopoly set, another on a bathtub rail...
...added, "Radcliffe's is a very small pool which can't hold more than 10 to 15 people at a time it's like a big bathtub...