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...while chemists called the new elements "pandemonium" and "delirium." Then one of them took a dive into Greek mythology and discovered that Pluto, god of Hades, had a goddess-friend, Persephone. Element 95, he suggested, should be named "persephonium...
...Army doctors reached him, they screwed a three-inch silver plate in just above the knee, and patched him up so that he didn't limp. But when he got back to college last January, Ohio State's swimming coach Mike Peppe told him he would never dive the way he used to-taking off from the left foot. Anderson decided to become right-footed...
Last week, in practice, Anderson thumped the big board at Bainbridge (Md.) Naval Training Station, sailed up and into a perfect double twisting forward one-&-a-half somersault-a dive he had invented himself. After that, it was no trouble to win the National A.A.U. high & low-board championships with comparatively easy jackknives and gainers. Said Anderson: "My sense of balance still isn't what it should...
...Cambrai. In World War II he led the British in one of their finest hours (the heroic retreat from Dunkirk), held Malta through the racking bombing of 1942. A soldier on the Dunkirk beach recalled the brash bravery of the B.E.F. Commander: "Capless, his head cocked, he watched the dive bombers. Then he dashed toward a machine gun mounted on a tripod, and single-handed took them...
...battle sites of World War III will have no privacy. Airborne television tubes will watch cities dissolve, flashing the action on generals' screens in deeply buried dugouts. Even bombs and rockets as they fall will watch and report their dive to the target with unblinking electronic eyes, until they and it vanish simultaneously...