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...weighing is done in a complicated apparatus whose essential part is a tiny glass tube closed at one end and trapping a bubble of air. When this "Cartesian diver" is properly weighted, it floats midway in a column of water, and slight changes in water pressure can make it sink or rise by compressing its bubble...
Syrupy Wine. Such sites are safe from most archeologists, who are generally more learned than athletic, but Philippe Diolé, director of Undersea Archeological Research for the French National Museums, is not merely learned. He is a "skin-diver," and loves nothing better than swimming under water with mask and air cylinder. Often the bottom of the sea is a desert with nothing to show that man has ever sailed over it, but sometimes an encrusted object looks somehow suspicious to Diolé's well-educated eye. Diolé investigates. He finds a chunk of Carrara marble...
During the rest of the picture, Wfllie and Joe rack up enough mileage in that chariot to make Carnival Story a sort of Indianapolis classic of its kind. At first, Willie gets a job in the cook tent, but then the high-diver (Lyle Bettger) gives her a spot in his act. One day he asks her to marry him. Joe does not mind: all he wants is his free ticket on the merry-go-round. Disgusted, Willie weds the high-diver, but Joe soon has her right back where he wants her. Before it all ends, Willie is left...
Backstroker Don Mulvey, free style Jim Jorgenson, and diver Bob Snails all reached the EIC finals, but then failed to place among the top three in their events. The 400-yard freestyle relay team finished fifth...
Columbia has a good diver in Bruce Hoy and two fair short distance swimmers in Pete Martin and Dave Orrik. Martin can do the 50 in 24 seconds and Orrik covers the 100 in less than 55 seconds. Beyond this triumvirate, the Lions have little strength...