Word: float
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Automatic Life Guard. A swimming pool alarm that rings a loud bell when somebody accidentally falls in was put on sale by Los Angeles' Modern Design Engineers. A sensitive float connected to an electric box at poolside is upset by any unusual motion of the water, thereby sets off the bell, which keeps ringing until help comes. Price...
...otters' bodies are buoyant, and they can float at ease with a cargo of edibles...
...fleet only two weeks ago (TIME, June 14), is not the man to let barnacles grow. Last week, out from a Kiel shipyard for a trial run with Onassis on board sailed his new yacht, probably the fanciest private ship afloat. Called the Christina (after his wife), Onassis' floating palace is a 1,445-ton, 303-ft. Canadian destroyer escort (Stormont) rebuilt into a yacht at an estimated cost of $2,500,000. In the afterdeck is a marble swimming pool, with a mosaic floor that can be raised for dancing. In the lounge is a huge fireplace...
...next day came another assignment, which called for equipment that Schulman never before had needed in his 17 years of metropolitan news reporting: high boots. Alaskan mukluks, parka and long underwear. With this gear he flew to Victoria, B.C., drove 135 miles across Vancouver Island to catch a float plane to keep a rendezvous with a boatload of seagoing missionaries on their Christmas visit to the isolated settlers on the island's West Coast...
...three years later he decided to give music up to become a priest, a Paulist like his idol, Father Finn. "I had the idea of becoming a priest from a small boy," he says. Manhattan helped."I used to float around with a lot of theatrical people, and they didn't impress me very much." Instead of depriving him of his music, the church gave it back...