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...developed something called the DSRV, capable of glug-glugging down to distressed subs, latching onto their escape hatches and lifting sailors to the surface. This time, though, the U.S.S. Neptune is lying in a deep ocean trench, subject to slides of rock and silt from farther up this underwater canyon. These slides 1) cover up the escape hatch and 2) keep shoving Neptune over to an angle where the DSRV can't latch onto that hatch. The screen writers must resort to their imaginations, concocting an experimental two-man sub that can clear the hatch so that the DSRV...
...reflected increasing voter outrage over constantly rising property taxes, which climbed 48% to 120% in 1976 alone. "Let the politicians sweat to get their money from somewhere else," says Hal Rolfe, a Los Angeles real estate agent whose own taxes rose from $900 to $2,017 on his Topanga Canyon home and from $540 to $1,913 on his nearby office. A divorced housewife in Van Nuys, Phyllis Waldman, now pays $ 1,568 rather than $750; the home she purchased nine years ago for $32,000 was revalued last July at $ 100,000. A retired engineer in Sacramento, Don Hickman...
...THERE you follow Sixth Avenue out of Denver to Interstate 70, wind through Mount Vernon Canyon and up Floyd Hill, where the VWs wheeze up the steep grade, through Idaho Springs and Empire, then right at the fork onto U.S. 40. Forty takes you over the Continental Divide through Berthoud Pass at 11,300 feet, and from the summit of the pass it is just a matter of not doing anything stupid on the hairpin turns that slither down the mountainside like a resting rattlesnake...
That was the last letter Bob sent to Jim. Jim flew to Denver March 24, 1976, for spring break, planning to meet Bob in a few days and go climbing and backpacking in the Grand Canyon. But the next evening, Mary Lyn called Jim and told him Bob had had an accident on the 24th while flying his hang glider off Point Fermin, California...
Exxon expects to have a rig at the Baltimore Canyon in less than three weeks; within an additional 90 days, the company should drill the first well. Shell's Pacesetter II rig, now drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, will move to the Baltimore Canyon by mid-April. Texaco, Continental, Mobil, Gulf and Houston Oil & Minerals are also moving rigs to the area...