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Dartmouth backstroker Neil Sween and diver Jim Venman should also take firsts against the Crimson. Sween's 2:21.2 edges Alan Rapperport's 2:23.2, the best varsity time to date. Rapperport, in fact, will have all he can do to held the green's Bill Pendleton out of second place in the event...
...freshman swimming and track teams lost to Exeter Saturday despite the efforts of diver Greg Stone. Since Stone and the Crimson swimmers arrived early at Exeter and found the pool locked, they decided to watch the track meet...
...same way about the others (Reynolds aluminum. Dodge. Maxwell House) when I work for them.'' But what the sponsors increasingly crave is a man like Ed Sullivan, who has given blood in San Francisco, landed in a helicopter on Boston Common, and submerged in a Navy diver's suit, all for the glory of Lincoln-Mercury...
NORTH TO DANGER, by Virgil Burford as told to Walt Morey (254 pp.; John Day $3.75) makes a fine companion piece to Scott's elephant adventure. Diver Burford spent years in Alaska, mostly pirating salmon from cannery-owned traps or diving to the ocean floor to mend the same traps -amidst sharks and 20-foot octopuses. Once Burford was manning the airline on board ship when another diver in the water below rashly tried to spear an octopus. A hairy tentacle shot out, and for three hours the diver (Scotty Evans by name) was caught 70 feet down...
...amoeba on his scale, Dr. Prescott waits until one of his stock has just divided into two new individuals. Working with a powerful microscope, he picks one of them up with a hairlike suction tube and delicately transfers it to a minute cup on top of the Cartesian diver. It cannot escape, but it thrives slimily on a broth of smaller protozoa. By measuring the pressure that will keep the underwater Cartesian diver on the zero line, Dr. Prescott can weigh his captive amoeba at all stages of growth. When the amoeba has doubled in weight, it generally divides into...