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...swallow-tailed coat, climbed into trunks. The car reached the spot where the Rio Quaccerique, loaded with silt from surrounding hills, whirls through a narrow gorge and widens to a rock-filled pool 100 ft. wide and 40 ft. deep. The ambassador was slightly worried; his best skin-diving equipment was still in Nantucket, where he had spent the summer. But he pulled on an ill-fitting tank of compressed air, a face mask with a broken strap, and stepped into the water. The mask leaked, and the water was so muddy that he "couldn't see the glass...
Jordan's Foreign Minister Samir Rifai, a man often assailed in the Middle East as a U.S. puppet, held a press conference in Amman, and U.S. prestige took another nose dive. The manner of the U.S. arms delivery, with U.S. Ambassador Lester Mallory and a gaggle of Jordanian notables watching from a special dais alongside the Amman airfield runway, had made an "unfortunate impression" in his country, said Rifai. "We do not feel justified," he said, "in interfering in the internal affairs of Syria." After routinely thanking the U.S. for the arms, he went on to suggest that they...
...whose jaws were both inflation and deflation, whose effects make a case study for economists. From the headquarters of roads from Boston to San Francisco came gloomy news of a sharp setback in earnings: a 40% decline for the Pennsylvania, the nation's largest railroad, a 60% nose dive for the New York Central, 15% for the Santa Fe, 25% for the Rock Island, 11% for the Boston & Maine. All told, said the Association of American Railroads, railroad profits for the first six months of 1957 have declined $61 million from 1956 levels. Worse yet, twenty-one Class...
Most builders were cheered by the changes. Said Levittown Builder William J. Levitt: "The new terms are a healthy stimulant to housing. They will enable the homebuilding industry to pull out of its nose dive starting right now, and housing starts should climb well over the 1,000,000 mark next year...
...technique that tamed sport parachuting, according to Istel, is sky diving, in which the jumper controls his body as he hurtles toward earth before pulling his ripcord. The skillful sky diver leaves the plane spread-eagled, looking somewhat like a highboard swan diver, his body horizontal. Despite falling speeds up to 120 m.p.h.. the body is remarkably stable in this position. Properly executed, a sky dive is spinproof (accidental spins can whirl or tumble the body up to three times a second, black out the jumper) and keeps the diver on his belly, so his backpack chute can open...