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...aqualung and famed deep sea diver, will give an illustrated lecture on "The Potentials of Undersea Exploration" tonight at 8 p.m. in Burr Lecture Hall B. Cousteau, author of "The Silent World," is Director of the Oceanographic Institute in Monaco. He also invented a two-man submarine which can descend over half a mile...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cousteau to Speak | 2/19/1959 | See Source »

...given the symbolic Club ties and front door keys. On most occasions, initiation nights turn ultimately into alcoholic brawls, and the University Police place them high on their winter social calendar. The Cambridge Fire Department also is usually summoned to provide entertainment for this event. Hook and ladder teams descend noisily on the Fly Club in response to false alarms turned in from the box on the Fly's wall by gleeful members of rival clubs...

Author: By Kenneth Auchincloss, COPYRIGHT, NOVEMBER 22, 1958, BY THE HARVARD CRIMSON | Title: The Final Clubs: Little Bastions of Society In a University World that No Longer Cares | 11/22/1958 | See Source »

Several times a day models descend the stairs to the platform over the pool for a fashion show--one of the biggest crowd pullers of the entire Exposition. The clothes modeled are all in a low-price range, to substantiate the claim of presenting "average" American life...

Author: By Martha E. Miller, | Title: Impressions of the Brussels Exposition: Diversities, Faults Typify 'World, '58' | 10/4/1958 | See Source »

...peacefully. Although the Sunday traffic from Slough can be heavy crossing the narrow bridge which leads over the Thames, little else disturbs the town until the first week in July comes. Then this litle country town is transformed into a semi-city; amusement parks, crowds, grandstands, and the BBC descend and line the banks of the river...

Author: By Claude E. Welch jr., | Title: The Royal Regatta at Henley on Thames | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

...shall descend into my grave. And on the third day rise again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Innocence in Russia | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

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