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...Aluminaut to show up. This summer, in waters off Bermuda, the U.S. Navy has carried out an experiment in underwater living. For nine days last month four U.S. aquanauts lived in a cigar-shaped, 40-ft.-long contraption named Sealab 1, resting in the coral-covered crater of an extinct volcano 192 ft. below the surface. The experiment proved that aquanauts could live and work for long periods of time hundreds of feet below the surface, thus eliminating the need for repeated and lengthy decompressions and making practical such sustained jobs as oil-well drilling and underwater mining...
...Though Edgar Rice Burroughs' social values may be archaic, they are far from extinct in contemporary times. The cult of the English gentleman is as much admired in the U.S. as over there. Perhaps we wouldn't want such conditions on our doorstep, but they suit our daydreams. Burroughs creates a homogeneous escape world where many interesting perils are always successfully overcome by the resourceful hero. Everything is pleasant-even the unpleasantness...
...coverage, while Eric Sevareid would appear every so often as a kind of deus ex machina and deliver auroral analyses uninhibited by routine details, or a shaft of wit, as when he recalled H. L. Mencken's description of a convention orator as coming from "a home for extinct volcanoes...
...their big brothers; the number of small manufacturing firms has been declining since 1957. Wrote Democratic Senator William Proxmire, chairman of a small-business subcommittee, in his new book, Can Small Business Survive?, published last week: "Whether you are a butcher, baker or candlestick maker, you may be as extinct as the village blacksmith...
...Properly-and appropriately-known as Didus ineptus, the Dodo was an ungainly, turkeylike bird that could not fly. As U.S. Humorist Will Cuppy wrote: "The Dodo seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct, and that was all he was good for." Not quite. It was the far-from-dead Dodo in Alice in Wonderland who organized the Caucus-race...