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This discovery was no surprise to Bruce C. Heezen of Lament Geological Observatory, the Vema's scientific skipper. Two years ago, the Vema found another canyon south of Greenland, which it traced north and south for 1,200 miles on the bottom of the Atlantic. Heezen believes that there must be many such gorges and that they are the channels of mud rivers that formed the level plain on the ocean floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Rivers Under the Sea | 10/4/1954 | See Source »

...When Adam (Howard Keel), the eldest, gets himself a wife (Jane Powell) by singing one of those rare ballads (When You're in Love) with love in the music as well as in the words, the other brothers celebrate their single cussedness by yowling a funeral Lament (for a lonesome polecat) that should fracture even the toughest audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 12, 1954 | 7/12/1954 | See Source »

...McCarthy-Stevens television hearing will be suspended, and consequently there will be No Crime Saturday morning. Cambridge readers are warned that in line with their traditional reading period hibernation, Crimeds will take off for a bi-annual inspection of Lament...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Crime Tomorrow For Reading Period | 5/7/1954 | See Source »

Love Affair (Felicia Sanders; Columbia). An intense lament with a fine tune, sung in a rough-tender style that puts Songstress Sanders right on top of the vocal heap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, may 3, 1954 | 5/3/1954 | See Source »

...justice with the development of the alcohol detection machine. One model has a simple arrangement that needs only a blood specimen from the suspected inebriate for its operation. Another requires the consumption of large quantities of water. Yet many still have little faith in the new devices and lament the disappearance of the chalk-line test. At a recent civic meeting, a New Orleans official gave a demonstration in the hope of inspiring interest and confidence in the Drunk-O-Meter, a type that measures the alcoholic content of the breath. Placing some 70 proof cough syrup at a handy...

Author: By Cliff F. Thompson, | Title: Mechanical Muddle | 3/30/1954 | See Source »

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