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...earlier books, from A Lamp on the Plains to his two-volume Great River: the Rio Grande, Author Horgan, 56, has shown his mastery of the Southwestern scene. In this novel he writes, as usual, with a fine cinematographic flair, and there are impressive wide-screen episodes: a gun fight at a water hole in the gullied, mountain-rimmed desert near Fort Delivery; the punishment of a cowardly trooper who, before the eyes of the assembled garrison, is branded on the hips with the letter D for deserter; the Indian encampment of Rainbow Son-Horgan's fictional version...
...meantime, with free diving still a new sport, Cousteau urges swimmers to take down an underwater lamp ("The colors that will emerge are incredible"), suggests a descent in open ocean for the more experienced ("Nothing above, nothing below, nothing on either side-it is an astonishing impression"). Beyond that, Skindiver Cousteau does not presume to pinpoint the pleasures of his sport. "What would you advise a baby to do when it is first born?" asks Cousteau. "When a person takes his first dive, he is born to another world...
...every desk was a precision-balanced draftsman's lamp; whole walls were covered with a fabric that would accept thumbtacks; through a first-of-its-kind telephone system, wives, friends and public-relations men could bypass the main switchboard, reach TIME people from anywhere in the U.S. by dialing LL6 and the appropriate extension. Interior decorators put up a fight for their geometrical inventions, but were mowed down by furniture-shifting editors with ideas of their own. Senior Editor A. T. Baker even brought along his old, scarred typing table. The new ones are built like wall shelves...
...Carnival last week, U.S. Canal Zone authorities braced for another invasion by Panamanians determined to plant their flag on zone soil. Then the Canal Company's public information officer, William Griffin Arey Jr., had an inspiration. For $14.85 he bought 60 tiny U.S. and Panamanian flags to decorate lamp posts on the zone side of the border. Next day Panama's surprised Foreign Ministry viewed "with much pleasure what has happened." Even Panama's rabble-rousing politicos were dazzled. "An intelligent and conciliatory step," said their leader, and the threat of an ugly demonstration was over...
...germ-killing arc light. Since ultraviolet rays kill germs more effectively at close range-their germicidal effect is proportionate to the square root of the distance-a microbe had only 1/256th as much chance of surviving a trip through the cylinders as it would have under an ultraviolet lamp hanging 4 ft. above the operating table...