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...Crystal chandeliers perfectly intact; stalactites of rust hanging from ceilings and dripping down walls; the grand staircase, minus the stairs; the ship's wheel, the wood eaten away but the brass fittings gleaming like new. These were some of the eerie images that emerged last week as a camera- equipped robot wandered through the Titanic, the first visitor to enter the "unsinkable" ship since an iceberg sent her and more than 1,500 of the 2,200 passengers to the bottom of the sea on her maiden voyage in April 1912. "It was a breathtaking experience," says Marine Geologist Robert...
...tether through which it transmitted live images to the three scientists in Alvin's cramped cabin. There was nothing left of the staircase itself; like much of the Titanic's celebrated woodwork, it had long since been devoured by wood-boring organisms. On every deck, though, exquisite glass and crystal chandeliers had been miraculously spared in the ship's violent descent. No human remains were seen. Said Ballard: "You have to remember that anything that's organic was eaten...
...team from the Oceanographic Institution had spent a week touring the forward section of the ship in the three-man submarine, directing a remote-controlled robot into areas of the ship where intact crystal chandeliers were spotted, swaying gently in a light underwater current...
Many a Western legend was born over whisky and roulette at the Crystal Palace Saloon in Tombstone, Ariz. Wyatt Earp, who took part in the famed shootout at the O.K. Corral (just two blocks away), gambled there. Doc Holliday and Bat Masterson came for serious drinking, while upstairs Pioneer Surgeon George Goodfellow removed bullets from slow-moving cowboys. Despite harrowing moments and hard times, the saloon is still in business and is now up for sale. The asking price...
...only time the 107-year-old Crystal Palace ever closed its doors was during Prohibition. At one time or other, it served as a makeshift movie theater and honky-tonk. In 1963 Wallace Clayton, editor of the National Tombstone Epitaph, and Partner Harold Love, along with two other investors, bought the place for $100,000 and spent another $100,000 restoring its original 1880s decor, including 20-ft. ceilings, swinging doors and frosted- glass windows. Now Clayton and Love's widow are ready to retire, but they say that the Crystal Palace is profitable. Local ranchers and tourists enjoy being...