Word: bimini
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Married. Corrine Huff, 28, onetime beauty queen and former secretary and No. 1 companion to high-living Congressman Adam Clayton Powell; and Patrick Brown, 25, until recently Powell's Bimini-based fishing-boat captain; both for the first time; in an Anglican ceremony; in Bimini, the Bahamas...
...small control room on the Bahamian island of North Bimini, Marine Biologist Arthur Myrberg pushed a button, then stared intently at a television monitor. Within half a minute, the TV screen came alive with thrashing sharks, groupers, snappers and other large inhabitants of the deep. Myrberg's surprising underwater show had once again started on cue-as it does whenever he signals his aquatic actors...
Sound Assumption. Myrberg's shark-calling technique is an outgrowth of his studies of fish behavior financed by the Office of Naval Research and the National Science Foundation. After starting his research on North Bimini in 1965, he proceeded on the assumption that fish communicate better acoustically than by sight or smell. Sound, after all, is carried farther in water than in the air, and three or four times as fast...
...initial study, Myrberg chose the bicolored damselfish, which is abundant and active in the clear waters off North Bimini and emits a large variety of sounds. By recording underwater noises and observing the behavior that accompanied each sound, he quickly learned parts of the damselfish language and began using it to control his subjects. By playing a recorded chirping sound, for example, he caused the damselfish to twist 45 degrees and then make a U-shaped dip, a pattern it often follows during spawning. Another recorded call actually caused color changes on the body of the fish...
...charges that he misused some $40,000 of public funds. Now he had returned from exile. Re-elected by his faithful Harlem constituency six weeks after his expulsion, and re-elected again in November, the wayward sheep was back from his retreat on the Caribbean isle of Bimini, ready and anxious to rejoin the fold. For five hours, the House debated the issue of reseating Powell, airing in the process nearly all his public and private transgressions. Then its members voted 251 to 160 to let Powell take his seat. From the rear of the chamber, where he had been...