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...vessel that can be run by just about anybody, dive safely to 250 ft., stay submerged for an hour at a time and costs (at $12,000 without extras) less than a Cadillac Seville. The man to see about lessons in the S 250 is Harold Jacobson, a balding but still visibly ginger-haired professional diver based in Warwick. He got the sub, and the Aquatic too, from Designer-Builder George Kittredge, a retired Navy sub commander who produces the world's only line of cheap simple-to-operate baby subs in Warren, Me. Last summer Kittredge...
...prototype toy for the rich in Florida and California but as a seagoing Model T Ford, a future flivver of the deep, or like the Curtiss Jenny biplane, some kind of ur-machine that may usher in a new age of travel. In that perspective Kittredge and Jacobson, like early aviation nuts who paid for their rickety planes by giving flying lessons or built them on a financial shoestring in barns and attics, can be regarded as American visionaries, gambling on the hope that history will catch up with their private enthusiasm...
...Jacobson's new training school is called Sub-Sea, Inc. His course runs two days, costs $150, begins with instruction in his home, where the student studies the S 250 on paper and is likely to be plied with splendid zucchini bread and coffee by Jacobson's wife, Georgia May, a schoolteacher at Warwick's Gorton Junior High School. On paper, operating the sub seems, well, child's play. Merely a matter of opening a few valves to let water into the ballast tanks until the S 250 has achieved "neutral buoyancy," then directing the thrust...
...reporters and still dash out of the studio like Dalmatians when a big story breaks. Washington's David Schoumacher put in two decades as a newspaper reporter and network correspondent before joining Washington's WJLA as anchor last year (at $120,000), and WBBM's Walter Jacobson ($140,000) is one of Chicago's most respected political reporters. Says New York's Larry Kane, a radio reporter at 15: "The press is abusive to say we're all mannequins. There are no major anchormen in the U.S. who are phonies...
Radcliffe captain Sarah Robinson ran her personal best race, to finish in fifth place at 19:45. Maureen Devlin, Diane Jacobson, Wendy Karle and Maria D'Innocenza surrounded the other Rhody Ram, Peg Dillon, in seventh place...