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ABC hopes this month to expand children's TV horizons with Disneyland, a series of 26 hour-long programs ranging from science to Indian Fighter Davy Crockett. The only other new development may come from NBC, which is considering a series on the underwater adventures of skin divers. Flamingo...
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...
But to the Marquise de Bausset-Roquefort, a descendant of Sully who inherited the chateau in 1902, the greatest charm of Sully-sur-Loire lay in an ancient rumor that a fortune of francs in jewels and gold lay buried somewhere in its walls. In 1951 the marquise began looking...
The scientific skin divers were not searching directly for oil. Their long-range purpose was to learn more about "stratagraphic traps." Oil pools are comparatively easy to find by geophysical methods if the oil has accumulated in a "structural trap," where pressure has forced the rock into a domed or...
The fashionable sport of skin diving has been taken up, rubber flippers, aqualungs and all, by serious geologists. Last week Magnolia Petroleum Co. told how its geological skin divers swim along the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico looking for information that will help find pools of oil.