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Albert Gore for the Associated Press: "How deep the Nautilus can dive is a secret. But there is no secret that I had nervous twinges as she plunged down in excess of 300 feet. How fast she will race through the dark, briny depths is also a secret. But it was the thrill of a lifetime to break all previous records in this respect as the midnight hour approached . . . The food we ate was cooked by atomic power. The water we drank was distilled from ocean water by atomic energy. The submarine was not only driven but lighted, heated...
...read that lions use their long tails to rub out their tracks, that when an elephant pair wishes to have a young one, they first eat of the mandrake (representing Adam and Eve and the tree of knowledge), and that whales will let sailors settle on their backs, but dive from under them if they light campfires...
Columbia was able to take only three second places and never scorded two men in one event. Jim Amlicke placed between Marshall Walter and John Montgomery in the low-board dive, and Sheldon Weiderhorn edged a sick Bill Hoadley for the second spot behind Sigo Falk in the breaststroke...
...Keller took Pennsylvania's other victory in the three meter dive...
From the crew's description and the wreckage, United learned that a tiny nut in the tail-elevator-trim mechanism had come loose, jamming the controls in dive position. The airline grounded its 54 Convairs as a safety precaution and the Civil Aeronautics Administration sent out orders to all other airlines to check for defective elevator controls on their Convairs...