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...Makes Me Dizzy..." At 460 feet: "Now the fireworks are really starting...There's a creature that looks like a long pipe with a row of lights along it. I don't know what it is. The tentacles of an octopus just dragged by, showering sparks." At 1,750: "The headphones are getting cold." At 2,500: "I see a barrage of luminescent, spirally shrimp beating against the window. They seem to splash when they hit." After passing the old record: "This is an unbelievable world down here. I wish Dr. Beebe were down here with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Deep Dip | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

Evil Kraken. Another mythical beast, says Ley, has really come to life: the kraken, a gigantic octopus that flourished in the imagination of medieval Scandinavians. Evidence has been accumulating, he says, to prove that there are several species of giant squid or octopus which come to the surface only rarely. Ley thinks that Scylla, of the Odyssey, must have been a kraken, with her six toothy necks reaching out of a sea cave. So was Medusa, with her "snakes" (octopus arms) writhing around her face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Romantic Zoologist | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...Story cost $258,000 and an oil company picked up the tab, specifying that its name was not to be tagged on the film. For oilmen, the film does its job by showing that oil comes from the sweat and courage of common men, not from an inanimate "industrial octopus." As a subtle piece of public relations, Louisiana Story may inspire many successors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Old Master | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

...order sticks, went into court, and got a ten-day stay of execution. Without blocking a metaphor, he argued that the airlines were angry because wildcatters had "pulled the ground out from under them," added that he was "not going to be shouted out of business by [an] octopus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Cat on the Carpet | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

Britain's David Low last week depicted the Man in the Kremlin looking smugly down from his citadel, watching how the outside world continued building an image of him as an infallible octopus. As usual, Low had a good point. The Man in the Kremlin, looking westward into capitalist paganry, had some things to worry about himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Positions for May Day | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

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