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Finned and face-masked, they hardly look like prospectors. Yet hundreds of scuba divers on Florida beaches these days are out for treasure, not pleasure. Some have already struck it rich. In the past six weeks alone, more than $1,000,000 in lost gold and silver has been fished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Collectors: Bonanza on the Bottom | 8/28/1964 | See Source »

In fact, the chances of finding gold are far better for Gulf Stream divers than they were for Yukon diggers. Of an estimated $8 billion in gold extracted from the New World by the Spanish, according to one expert, at least 5% -$400 million worth-was lost in shipwrecks on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Collectors: Bonanza on the Bottom | 8/28/1964 | See Source »

Mahoney should beat out Yale's Pete Desjardins and Princeton's Scott Andrews, two of his conquerors in the Easterns, but how he will fare against the top boardmen from the rest of the country is hard to predict, since divers have no universal measuring rod like the swimmers' times...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson's Fowler, Mahoney to Enter Yale National Swim Championships | 3/26/1964 | See Source »

The style of the divers episodes is semi-realistic. On the whole, props are merely implied. Only a few crucial ones, which stand out in Quentin's memory with special vividness, are actually visible--a toy boat, a bed sheet and Maggie's pill bottle, for instance.

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Arthur Miller's Comeback | 1/27/1964 | See Source »

The laws which most directly protect "racial integrity," whatever that may be, are those which make miscegenation (intermarriage of races) a crime. The first anti-miscegenation law was enacted in the colony of Maryland in 1661. It declared that "divers free-born English women, forgetful of their free conditions, and...

Author: By Peter Cumminos, | Title: Race, Marriage, and Law | 12/17/1963 | See Source »

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