Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There will be one door (a thick plate) and two windows, one of them set in the center of the door. Instead of glass, or the quartz used by William Beebe in his record-holding (3,028 ft.) bathysphere, the windows will be Plexiglas cones with the narrow ends pointing inward. Professor Piccard theorizes that the pressure will squash the elastic Plexiglas windows firmly into their sockets...
Mexican prisoners scorn anything like escape art. Instead of landscapes, birds, or flowers, most of them daub away at private horrors. Samples: a half-human fetus turning away in fright from a street, a huge fist clutching eight cadavers, skeletons, three starved men craning their necks to catch driblets from a single spoon. One lifer, condemned for the murder of his wife and children, had dreamed up a lovely woman trailing blood across his cell floor...
...reputation as a court jester for Hollywood sophisticates troubles Abe. He resents being called a cynic: "Cynics disbelieve real things; I disbelieve phonies." He claims he is working roughly along the lines of Will Rogers, except that he uses a piano instead of a rope. "The people . . . are just like me. ... I don't want to talk like Carl Sandburg, but I like the people...
Because of its 54 entries, open singles will have to be run in six rounds instead of the originally scheduled four. Previously, one schedule change was made to compensate for a weeklong vacation in the Business School...
...yesterday's regatta opening, clerk of course Bill Dowd found it necessary to change the method of picking finalists when it became evident that the entries in a scheduled third heat had dropped out. Two heats were rowed and the top men in each--instead of only the winner--qualified for the final...