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...tale of fighters, dames, and lots of money. Edward G. Robinson discovers Wayne Morris in a hotel lobby and makes him into a contender, while trying to keep Bette Davis' hands off him. Humphrey Bogart is the evil opponent outside the ring who wants the bellhop to take a dive. The outcome is both logical and enjoyable. Channel...
Minnesota has its drawbacks. Its winters are as hard as the Ice Age, and in the summers, mosquitoes often seem half the size of dive bombers. Unemployment outside the Twin Cities area is troublesome, and personal income taxes are the highest in the nation. Duluth residents worry about possible
...scheduled to be a routine mission, a dive of about an hour's duration in only a few hundred feet of water off Key West, Fla. The 23-ft.-long submersible, designed by famed Inventor-Oceanographer Edwin A. Link-whose son, E. Clayton Link, 31, was one of the four men on board-seemed more than equal to the task. Since it began operating as an oceanographic research vessel for the Smithsonian Institution two years ago, Sea-Link* had easily plunged to depths of 1,000 ft. Last week, as the minisub maneuvered in swift currents of the Gulf...
...been cut in half so far this year. One result is that tens of millions of Americans, whether they know it or not, face the prospect of retirement benefits less generous than they had hoped for, because the stocks that their pension funds invest in have gone down. The dive has mystified even top corporate executives. Robert Oster, senior vice president of California's Bank of America, the nation's largest, reports that on a recent nationwide tour he kept hearing the same refrain from corporate clients: "How the hell can we be that low on the market...
Adrienne Rich is a person who has taken many small but exquisite steps in fulfilling her own large talent. Often she has had to dive into the "wreck" she refers to in her latest collection of poems (Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972), into a nether world of subconscious fantasies, psychic pain, and a bankrupted society. Out of the ruins, however, she has built a life of poetry, a life as a mother, a teacher, a woman, that has left here reasonably content. Contemplating the meaning of the title that heads up her latest volume, she answers a question...