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...Weather Bureau issued flood warnings for the Charles River yesterday afternoon, but indicates that there is now no danger in the Basin. However, the upper river is expected to crest at four feet today and over six feet on Thursday, flooding lowlands and cellars in the Dedham and Dover vicinity...
FREDERICK J. AZIZ JR. Dover...
...snubby nose of the broad-winged aircraft looked as if it had been flattened against the white cliffs of Dover. The propeller sprouted out of its tail like a designer's afterthought. In the cabin, the pilot rode a first cousin to a bicycle, and he was pedaling furiously. A covey of anxious friends checked his progress...
Looking like a seal and feeling mighty seasick, U.S. Frogman Fred Baldasare, 38, lumbered from the Dover surf into the arms of his frisky German fiancee with a new record of sorts: he was the first man to swim the English Channel underwater. For 18 hr. 1 min. the former U.S. Army film director submarined along 15 feet beneath the surface, accompanied by a launch and encased in a steel cage that kept the aqualunged swimmer from drifting off course. Said the feisty Floridian, who prepped for his 22-mile swim by traversing the Straits of Messina's Scylla...
...short while ago it seemed an attractive one only to imaginative men with eccentric illusions. Now it appears that after a long and somewhat comical history of failures and brief but unsuccessful forays under the sea, the tunnel may at last find its way from the Cliffs of Dover to the outskirts of Calais...