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Some 100 meters off the Isle of Capri one day last week, a stocky (5 ft. 6 in., 150 Ibs.) Italian Air Force lieutenant named Raimondo Bucher donned a man-from-Mars outfit: rubber frog feet, web-fingered gloves, heavy goggles, and a partial face mask with rubber-padded steel clips to block his nostrils. In his hands he carried a 44-lb. spear gun, weighted with an extra 4.4 Ibs. of lead. Bucher. poised on the rail of the small ship bobbing in the rough water, was aiming to become the first man ever to "skin-dive" (i.e., without...
...with the Marker. Officials of the Federazione Italiana Pesca Sportiva (Italian Sport Fishing Federation) dropped a weighted measuring line 148 ft. down into the crystal-clear water. Bucher, now 40, and eager to win back the record he once held at 98 ft., failed on his first try; the pressure dislodged his mask. After a half-hour rest, he went over the side again, close to the measuring cable. Down he went, while photographers with special equipment recorded the descent. After a long minute and 17 seconds, while anxious officials scanned the choppy water, Bucher bobbed to the surface, beaming...
...Deceiver. In Kansas City, 18-year-old Lillian Arlene Bucher went to court for a divorce, complained that "he told me he was 78-actually he was five years older...
...caught the eye of Westinghouse's aging board chairman, A. W. Robertson. Ex-Lawyer Robertson liked the hardworking, thoroughgoing look of young Bill Price. So in 1943, Robertson brought in Price as a W-E vice president, started grooming him to take over the presidency from oldster George Bucher, who last week became vice chairman of the board...
...Barnes Durwood Gudaltis J. Fisher Smith Stannard Cummings 186 195 178 187 181 190 181 re rt rg c lg lt le G. Knox Fields Holloway Warrington Ramsey Base Vandeweghe 100 195 185 190 185 200 175 Forkovitch Bucher Longacre Johnson 200 180 190 200 William and Mary...