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...flat, long light of a late afternoon last week, the oil exploration boat Submarex rode gently in the Pacific swell near the Southern California town of Redondo Beach. Below the water's surface. Professional Diver Eldon W. Smith, 31, began his ascent. Suddenly, the men on the Submarex intercom heard a scream tear from inside Smith's helmet: the diver, apparently rising too fast, was struck with caisson disease-knifelike jabs of pain caused by the accumulation of deadly nitrogen bubbles in the bloodstream-the "bends...
...wife and two sons arrived, agonizingly watched the rescue work through the chamber windows. The frantic minutes dragged by: the decompression cycle began. For eight hours and 40 minutes, Bill Biller worked desperately. Then, thrashing in gasping spasms before the anguished and horrified eyes of his wife, Eldon Smith died...
Finally, the last of the pressurized air whistled dryly out of the tank, and Biller heard the clank of eight bolts. It was 39 hours after he entered the chamber-30 hours since Eldon Smith died-when the entrance hatch opened and Bill Biller returned somberly to the world of the living...
...they been in another profession, the actions of Mary Schoenheit, 47, of Centertown, Mo. , and William Cheney, 35, of Eldon, Mo., might not have caused much stir. But Mrs. Schoenheit was formerly a public-school teacher in Illinois, and Cheney now teaches at the Eldon high school. This fall they independently decided to keep their seven-year-old daughters out of school and teach them at home. Reason: both felt that the local public schools are not doing a good enough...
...chose Hubert H. Schaumburg '56 Vice President, and Morris M. Goldings '57, Political Action Chairman. Stephen R. Kaplan '57 of Dunster House is the new Secretary and Eldon D. Momsey '57 of Lowell House the Treasurer...