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...pulled to safety aboard the rescue vessel; then a toppling comber roared in and swept twelve men off the Tusk's slippery deck. Shipmates lashed ropes around their waists, leaped into the swirling water between the two subs; they got only six-back to the perilous refuge of the vessel's streaming deckplates. The other six simply vanished in the tumultuous waves and were never found...
...explosions shook the Cochino. The Tusk's skipper, Commander Robert Worthington of Oakmont, Pa., brought her alongside; as the two subs tumbled and crashed and wallowed, a narrow gangway was pushed across from deck to deck. One by one, eyeing the seas v.ith desperate concentration, the Cochino's men came leaping across...
...when Dr. William Beebe made his record ocean descent in his baby blue Bathysphere off Bermuda, he had to stop at 3,028 feet because the cable was about to run out. As he crawled out on deck after being pulled up, Scientist Beebe announced: "I'll tell the world that this is the last time I'll attempt record-breaking dives which really have no scientific value...
Indoors & Out. Neutra's house for the B.s had been finished and occupied by last week. Viewed from the street it lay along the hillside like an airy fort, constructed of redwood, rosy-beige stucco and plate glass. A solidly railed, angular deck jutted out at one side; a larger, unrailed deck of slat-grill redwood served as the entrance porch. The living room was an 18 by 32 ft. rectangle staggered irregularly by a guest closet, bookcases, birch-trimmed dining alcove and flagstone hearth. Along one wall were 27 ft. of plate glass windows, with sliding draperies...
...silver-maned, bush-mustached old lion of a man had barely stepped out on the promenade deck when the New York press was upon him. "O.K., Dr. Schweitzer!" shouted the photographers. "Stand over there . . . now look this way-this way . . . Hey, Mr. Schweitzer, wave will-ya-with the hand, see? ... O.K., let's make him walk down the deck . . . Hey, Mr. Schweitzer...