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Dave English, Harvard's sophomore diver, took first place in both the one-meter and the three-meter diving competitions. Teammate John Zakotnik who has been turning in better and better performances towards the end of the season, captured both second places in the diving...
Another key matchup will be in the diving department. The Tigers' junior diver Billy Heinz is undefeated in both one-meter and three-meter boards and is ranked fourth nationally. He leads the team in scoring with 40 points...
...lightning with three red flares held in their hands. The next day, the newspapers reported one of the skydivers had been killed, burned to a crisp by his flare before he hit the ground. The only one who seemed out of control, like a dead weight, was the first diver. But by the time I saw him floating down, there was no flare. Also in the papers was the report that 8 people died in automobile crashes while en route to the festival. Fewer than 100 people were arrested, all on minor possession charges, and just over a hundred people...
...free swim to the surface was considered far too risky. Trapped along with Menzies in Sea-Link's forward observation compartment-a helicopter-like bubble made of plastic-was Marine Biologist Robert Meek, 27. The younger Link and Veteran Diver Albert Stover, 51, were sealed off separately in the aluminum aft compartment...
...board the submersible's mother ship, Sea Diver, the senior Link, 68 (long known for his World War II pilot training machines), realized that time was rapidly running out. The 9½-ton sub had only limited life-support chemicals. That was not the only problem. While the forward compartment's acrylic bubble acted as an insulator against the chilly (40° F.) sea, the rear compartment-where Link and Stover sat in light sports shirts and shorts-was quickly cooling off. The chill reduced the effectiveness of the chemical "scrubber," a sodium carbonate compound called Baralyme, which...