Word: diver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...place. In summer, he spends as much time as possible in swimming so the mouse will be invisible under water. Struggling in other ways against the teasing derision of his clannishly normal classmates, he makes himself the best gymnast in the school, as well as the best swimmer, diver and the best student. The war is on. Mahlke resolves to win the Iron Cross, Germany's highest military honor. But no matter what he does he remains an outcast-sometimes inspiring awe, but never inspiring acceptance...
...sewer-construction project. Strapped to a pontoon was an injured workman, his leg broken by a whiplashing cable. Suddenly the chopper tilted and crashed into the water. Aboard the barge, preparing to inspect the pipe 217 ft. down on the ocean floor, Jon Lindbergh, 31, deep-sea-diver son of Air Hero Charles Lindbergh, stripped off his gear, dived in and swam 100 yds. to the crash. Working under water, Lindbergh swiftly cut the injured man free from the wreckage. But the odds were against him. By the time a skiff got the man back to the barge...
...idea of the speed of the cars. It uses Aqua-Lungs to get under competitive swimmers and shoot them from the only angle that really shows their styles and turns. It has even adapted missile-tracking devices as one way to keep a camera trained on a sky diver falling at 160 m.p.h. And always, in any sport, the commentary is by an expert-a Stirling Moss, an Arnold Palmer, or an Art Devlin...
...flooded section, but others remained alive behind a watertight hatch. They sent a smoke bomb and a yellow buoy carrying a telephone to the surface. Four hours later another sub found the buoy, talked by phone with those trapped below. Twenty-four hours after the Squalus sank, a Navy diver reached her deck and directed a 10-ton diving bell in four dramatic descents that saved...
Last year the Crimson beat Penn 66-39 and should find the going no harder this season. However, the Quakers' outstanding performer of last year, a diver named Fisher, returns and will undoubtedly make that event an exciting one. Against Columbia in 1962, the varsity won every event and racked up a near-perfect 76-19 score...