Word: diver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...good day," Harvard coach Bill Brooks said. Most of the times were exceptional for so early in the season. Army, however, was not as powerful as expected. Through graduation they lost two All-Americans. Barry Kerr and Dick Heesch and diver Don Green. Another big blow was the loss of Steve Kennedy, who is no longer at the Academ. "We expected to lose today," Ryan explained...
...Because of its extreme versatility, portability, and economy, "The Stud" can put man in the sea on a much larger scale than ever before." Clark said. "Its use as a diver's resting place or observation platform is limited only by the depth to which a scuba diver can dive...
What, then, if John Farrar, the scuba diver who recovered Mary Jo's body from the bottom of Poucha Pond, were to take the stand to promulgate his theory that the girl probably lived, breathing in an air pocket, for some time after the accident? Under Boyle's strictures, Kennedy's attorneys would not have been permitted to produce expert testimony to challenge Farrar's thesis or his qualifications. Meantime, every news story from Edgartown would recirculate the Farrar version, enveloped this time in the dignifying aura of a legal proceeding...
...often-as in the skydiving sequences-masterly, much of the dialogue lacks the painful intensity that was obviously intended. The interrelationships of the characters make sense but have little emotional resonance, a handicap that only Gene Hackman manages to surmount. His brassy characterization of a free-living sky diver adds a poignant dimension of reality to a film that, like sky diving itself, is an exciting but slightly dubious exercise...
...with telephone calls and telegrams charging that Kennedy was not receiving the same scrutiny anyone else might have, Arena heatedly said to newsmen: "Let me tell you?he is being treated the same as everyone else." This hardly seems to have been the case. According to John Farrar, the diver who retrieved Mary Jo's body the next morning after an islander had reported the submerged car and after Arena had himself made an unsuccessful attempt to recover the body, the chief was informed that Kennedy was waiting for him back at Edgartown. By this time Arena knew that...