Word: deep-sea
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...earth story of broad fun and cliffhanging climaxes, and it takes a sophisticated view of human foibles. NBC's version was a rollicking production full of style and striking images, a bouncy score, and dances depicting the fluttery rhythms of liberated marionettes and the slow-motion gyrations of deep-sea fish. At the top of a first-rate cast, which included Walter Slezak, Martyn Green and Stubby Kaye, was 37-year-old Mickey Rooney, who somehow managed to keep ubiquitous Mickey Rooney out of the act and gave a remarkably apt performance as the wooden boy with the tent...
Letting the rest of the world go by, Britain's ex-Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden and wife Clarissa basked on the sunny strand of New Zealand's subtropic Otehei Bay, a favorite operating base for deep-sea fishermen. Eden, still bedded periodically by his gall-bladder ailment, left Britain in mid-January...
...earth and occasionally to flounder in the uppermost layer of its waterways, gets into trouble when he tries to go either up or down. The medical hazards of high-altitude flying have long been studied. Until recently, the corresponding dangers of the deep have been the private preserve of Navy "diving doctors" working with submariners and deep-sea divers. Now, with the craze for skindiving, with Aqua-Lungs, snorkels and similar gadgets sold in the corner store, civilian doctors are daily confronted with unfamiliar problems. In the New England Journal of Medicine, one of the Navy's top underwater...
...Yoshio Oyama was a skilled veteran in deep-sea diving. For 20 years he had flirted, unscathed, with underwater hazards, of which the deadliest is the invisible "bends"-nitrogen coming out of solution in the blood and forming bubbles that cause excruciating pain or paralysis. A fortnight ago, Veteran Diver Oyama met the bends...
...officer in India and Malaya, he nourished a youthful dream that someday he would sail home in his own boat. When he re tired in England seven years ago, Major Hayter, then 34, put all his savings into a sturdy nine-ton yawl, Sheila 11, took a course in deep-sea navigation and got ready for the long voyage home...