Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would not get off the sidewalk. "I could see it building up in him," says McCarty. "I knew he was going to hit one of them." When the punch came, McCarty caught a memorable picture of a teen-ager exploding in a burst of rage expressive of a deep yearning for equality and civil rights...
...when he took a vacation from his drawing board and, with his father and brother Rod as crew members, astounded the blue-water racers by skippering his 52-ft. yawl Dorade to victory in a transatlantic race to England. The experience helped him go on to design deep-keeled, fast cruising yawls with flashy racing lines, such as Baruna and Bolero, and the shallow-keeled, sturdy Finisterre, that came to dominate blue-water racing against schooners and ketches...
...years ago, tireless Inventor Link took up another hobby-deep-sea diving. Already, Link has co-developed a deep-sea diver's underwater scooter, a torpedo shaped like a hotel hallway's fire extinguisher that tows a diver along behind. Link is building a 91-ft. Diesel yacht specifically designed for undersea exploration with such gadgets as an underwater metal locater for hunting wrecks and buried treasure, so sensitive it picks up tin cans. Next year, Link hopes to use the boat to explore the sunken Roman seaport of Caesarea, off the coast of Israel...
While flying and deep-sea diving may seem a long way apart, Link says they are not. "In the water and in the air navigation is the main problem, and the main fascination. I simply have applied what I've learned about air navigation...
Saturday, July 5. The "blasted British dew" finally let up after two days of continuous drizzle. Hundreds of people sloshed through the ankle-deep mud to the grandstands, where soaked seats sold for three guineas. Hundreds of others, even whole families, perched gingerly on the river banks, peering through binoculars, straining to hear loud-speaker announcements, and giving seemingly apathetic British cheers...