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...letter sent to Army ROTC cadets reminding them of their "obligation" to join the Caisson Club has caused angry comment by several cadets who feel that they are being forced to join an extracurricular activity which is officially completely voluntary...
...August 1948, Stalin's heir apparent, the tough and flamboyant Andrei Zhdanov, died at 52 of what his doctors called "paralysis of the heart." The old tyrant gave Zhdanov the most pompous funeral since Lenin's, and walked behind the caisson with tears in his eyes. As boss of Leningrad before and during World War II, Zhdanov had placed a clique of up-and-coming young administrators in crucial posts. Scarcely had his body been lowered into a grave at the foot of the Kremlin wall when his chief rival, pudgy Georgy Malenkov, joined with Secret Police Boss...
...near the Southern California town of Redondo Beach. Below the water's surface. Professional Diver Eldon W. Smith, 31, began his ascent. Suddenly, the men on the Submarex intercom heard a scream tear from inside Smith's helmet: the diver, apparently rising too fast, was struck with caisson disease-knifelike jabs of pain caused by the accumulation of deadly nitrogen bubbles in the bloodstream-the "bends...
Then starts the merriest operation in the offshore oil business. An engineer, sitting at a control cabinet with little handles on it, opens valves releasing streams of compressed air. One stream runs through tubing to each of the caissons and inflates a heavy-walled rubber "inner tube," locking the caisson tightly to a steel ring. Then other inner tubes inflate, expand, and drive the caisson into the mud. Eventually the caissons reach firm footing deep in the mud. Then, inch by inch, the barge climbs up its own caissons like a boy shinning up a tree...
Edward M. Berges: CRIMSON; President, Army ROTC Caisson Club; Intramural Sports, Squash, Crew, Football; PBH (summer 1951) Counselor for Cambridge Boy's Group...