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...bathyvessel, which he began designing before the war, will be a true submarine, as free-swimming as a mackerel. His goal, he told newsmen last week, is 4,000 meters, nearly 2½ miles below the surface. The Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research will sponsor the big dive...
...island's economy is still dominated by the strapping, glowingly colored Hahnyuh (sea women) who dive for pearls in two-piece bathing suits and goggles. Most men spend their days smoking, gossiping, doing housework. But others, getting dangerous modern ideas, have started working on farms and have muscled in on the local government. The boldest males have even dared insist on wifely fidelity...
With Asdic the harpoon-gunners hoped to follow a sounding whale on his deep dive under the sea, and to be waiting for him when he came up to blow. But the whales, nimbler than U-boats, dove out of Asdic's sonic beam, and the gunners had to rely, as of old, on their knowledge of whale psychology. Radar was useless for spotting surfaced whales, which gave very poor "pips" on its scope. Even at locating antarctic ice it was none too useful in the hands of the whalers' semi-trained operator...
...Urban John Vehr of Denver, ceremonially draped with a pallium* brought from Rome by Samuel Alphonsus Cardinal Stritch, managed to get through the ceremony with a nose that had been through a chilling experience. Playing host to visiting bishops the night before, the Archbishop had tripped, taken a nose dive. Physicians insisted on keeping the archiepiscopal neb in an ice pack all night...
...Western was a major production. Even in the '203 cowboys would take a fall for a dollar and bulldog a rider off a running horse for two. Today stunt men get $35 per fall, $100 more for tougher stunts, $250 for a high dive into a lake. The average Western cost $15,000 to $35,000 in the '303; today, rising costs have boomeranged this...