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...outer island attracting the most tourists is the big island of Hawaii, whose Kailua-Kona district has long been considered by its devotees among the Pacific's finest deep-sea fishing areas. The long-established Kona Inn. a barracks-like octopus of a place, captures much of the millionaire trade. But it is about to acquire a new rival. Promoter Laurance Rockefeller has leased a large tract around Kaunaoa Beach, hired Architects Skidmore. Owings & Merrill to design a $12 million, 150-room resort hotel intended to provide every luxury anybody is willing...
...high pressure with which deep-sea divers and tunnel workers must contend has always been a source of danger, but now physicians and surgeons on both sides of the Atlantic are deliberately subjecting their patients to deep-sea pressures to save their lives. As testament to the success of this paradoxical treatment, "blue babies" are turning a healthy pink even before the end of operations. Seemingly hopeless cases of carbon monoxide poisoning and of gas gangrene (a deadly infection) are pulling through...
Died. Jean Felix Piccard, 79, bushy-haired cosmic ray scientist and pioneer high-altitude balloonist, whose 1934 ascent to 57,579 ft. broke the record set by his late twin brother Auguste (a deep-sea explorer as well) and brought back data that helped confirm the increase of cosmic rays at higher altitudes; of a heart attack; in Minneapolis...
...calypso singer or a steel band. El Conquistador, now in its first season, perches atop a cliff on the northeastern tip of the island, uses an aerial tramway to ferry guests to and from the white-sand beach below. Villa Parguera, on the southwest shore, specializes in deep-sea fishing; El Barranquitas in the mountainous interior has a spectacular view and an excellent cuisine. Puerto Rico's finest hotel is the Dorado Beach, 20 miles west of San Juan, built by Laurance Rockefeller and spread out over 1,200 acres, which include a private airport and a championship golf...
...good actor is a deep-sea diver." he explains. "For years I was content to be the guy pumping the air down to the deep-sea diver. Now I feel I've got to put on the suit myself." He pumped air to Marlon Brando in Viva Zapata! and to Kirk Douglas in Lust for Life, each time winning an Oscar as the year's best supporting actor. He created sworls of off-center violence in dozens of other good movies, from 1943's The Ox-Bow Incident to 1961's The Guns of Navarone...