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Last year the Columbia gridders went 0-10, were shut out three times, were out-scored 331-75, and were called "drug-addicted losers" by (now departed) Coach Jim Garrett...
...helped to invent the Aqualung--the precursor of self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (scuba)--and used it to excavate a vessel at the bottom of the Mediterranean near the island of Grand Congloue. "That opened the door to underwater exploration for the modern day," says Wilbur Garrett, editor of National Geographic, the venerable publication of the National Geographic Society, which has since financed many undersea missions by Cousteau and others. In 1959 Cousteau invented the first small submersible, a battery-powered diving saucer propelled by jets of water that could safely carry a two-person crew to a depth...
...swing-set is now gone, and so is the tree that prevented a Wayne Garrett home run from giving me the 1976 season...
...alley. They also benefit from a cast of characters that comes predrawn in broad outlines, like so many figures in a crazy coloring book. But the shading added by the authors is careful and, in the case of players elbowed out of the spotlight, like Laraine Newman and Garrett Morris, compassionate. Some of S.N.L.'s creators turn out to be as vivid as the performers themselves. Writer Michael O'Donoghue decorated his office with a picture of Mass Murderer Richard Speck and a pinup of a nude amputee, and once pushed hard for a segment in which Announcer Don Pardo...
...Philadelphia, Phoenix and Guadalupe, Ariz., and Cambridge, Mass. Some burglaries are repeat jobs. The Cambridge offices of the New Institute for Central America (NICA), which arranges for Americans to travel to Nicaragua, were ransacked recently for the fourth time. "We think that the Government is behind these acts," said Garrett D. Brown, NICA's associate director, though he had no solid proof to support his theory. The FBI and Immigration and Naturalization Service insist they had nothing to do with the burglaries. "We are not involved in any illegal break- ins," said FBI Spokesman Bill Carter. He added...