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...trace precisely the contours of the ocean floor, and a compact submersible vessel towed like a sled on a cable, which relayed photographs and videotape confirming the Titanic find. For some of the investigators, the biggest thrill was that their experimental equipment worked. "This allows us to open up deep-sea exploration on a much, much larger scale than before," says Woods Hole Director John Steele. "We couldn't ask for more...
...conquistadores heard gaudy reports that the Indians had thrown gold, jewels and young virgins into the cenote to propitiate their deities. Nothing was ever found until 1904. Then American Archaeologist Edward H. Thompson, working with a steel bucket appended to a simple boom and derrick, and later with primitive deep-sea diving equipment, spent more than five years exploring the sinkhole. Thompson gradually brought up gold bells in the shape of monkeys, sheet-gold masks, scepters, sacrificial knives and a multitude of other objects including an assortment of human bones, mostly of men and children. He shipped his discoveries...
...Armani's definitive long coats and shorter sexy skirts; his loose, liquid, wool jumpsuits; his jackets with turned-down lapels; his heart-stopping evening wear... heaven on a hanger! Claude Montana's huge coats in electroshock colors; Yohji Yamamoto's sweaters in colors like a deep-sea bottom! Saint Laurent's peerless pants! It is easy enough, in the midst of all this, for any buyer to go nicely nuts. "This is it! This is the end!" said Krull, leaping to her feet at the sight of a black silk jersey, beaded Lagerfeld number. When Ruttenstein...
...deep-sea fish used to a constant pressure of many atmospheres rises to the surface, it perishes because it cannot ad just to excessively low pressures." Only when October 1916, his long-awaited new novel, appears in Russian next fall and in English in 1985, will it be known whether the air of freedom has proved too thin for this great writer. Certainly it has provided the breath of life for many of his compatriots. - By Patricia Blake
During an earlier silent auction guests bid on such items as a German translation of The Hotel New Hampshire, autographed by author John living, and a deep-sea fishing trip off the coast of Martha's Vineyard...