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...Hidebound. In Sao Paulo, Brazil, after Pedro Serafim, 25, fired two bullets into his head, another two into left lung, hit himself over the head with a hatchet, and began working on his throat with a saw, neighbors rushed him to a hospital where doctors pronounced him in good condition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 11, 1960 | 4/11/1960 | See Source »

...declined so sharply that surgeons in some areas cannot find enough cases for comparative research. Reason for the drop (40% to 50%), Director John R. Heller of the National Cancer Institute (TIME cover, July 27) told Congress, is unknown. And it is more than offset by the increase in lung cancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, Apr. 4, 1960 | 4/4/1960 | See Source »

...right things in a jam. They need not be especially powerful-in the weightless, silent world, a twitch of a flipper can provide all the power needed. Cousteau is convinced that nearly anyone with adequate training and common sense can learn to dive with an Aqua-Lung. Says he: "Free diving is safer than motorcycling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Poet of the Depths | 3/28/1960 | See Source »

...Oxygen lungs have one great advantage: they recycle the diver's carbon dioxide through a purifier, let no bubbles escape to the surface. For this reason they are used by military frogmen, who would be betrayed by the telltale stream of bubbles from a compressed-air lung, which discharges spent breath into the water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Poet of the Depths | 3/28/1960 | See Source »

...conflicting claims, skindivers believe that the deepest descent with held breath was made by a Greek sponge diver named Stotti Georghios, who in 1913 swam down 200 ft. to put a line on the lost anchor of an Italian battleship. Dumas' dive to 307 ft. with an Aqua-Lung is regarded as the record fro free diving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Poet of the Depths | 3/28/1960 | See Source »

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