Word: diversion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The hulk, leaking oil at a rate of about one ton an hour, posed a danger to the dozens of ships that round the cape every day. In a daring maneuver, a private helicopter, with air force planes monitoring the situation, lowered two divers onto the wreck to attach a...
DIED. Sergei Chalibashvili, 21, Soviet diver; of heart failure, after having struck his head (incurring multiple skull fractures) on the ten-meter-high platform while attempting a 3½ reverse somersault in tuck position at the World University Games; in Edmonton, Alta. The athlete had had trouble in executing the...
Whether Watson succeeds or not in Colorado Springs, the diver will travel to Ronneby, Sweden, this coming week to compete in the Swedish Cup, which features the top 16 divers in the world. Watson is among the eight seeded divers and stands a good chance to win the three-meter...
Based on his previous performances. Watson stands a good chance of making the grade. The soon-to-be junior took third in the three-meter at the U.S. Indoor Nationals in Indianapolis last April and a year ago won the national championship in the platform event. At the Sports Festival...
DIED. Joel Hildebrand, 101, distinguished chemist and faculty member of the University of California at Berkeley for 69 years, where some 40,000 students took his first-year chemistry courses; in Kensington, Calif. His scientific research included discoveries about the absorption of gas into liquids under pressure that led to...