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...Newton (Mass.) High School has extended the plan to 39 seniors, 57 juniors and 80 sophomores. Says Superintendent Harold Gores: "It's like a shot of oxygen...
...their traveling space with tar paper, to throw sniffing police dogs off the scent. They would need an escape hatch in the floor of the car, and a system of air vents to prevent suffocation. In case this failed to work, son Marian promised to provide a tank of oxygen from the lumberyard machine shop. During the next five months, while Marian checked him in daily on the lumberyard time clock, Bedrich Cech made four exploratory trips checking train times and routes at the Austrian border...
...Aboard. One day last month, using some faulty loadings in the past as an excuse, Boss Marian sent his workers home and announced that he personally was going to load the next flatcar. At dusk, carrying their drugged children, their tools, their tar paper, the oxygen tank, some food, water, and the inevitable bottle of slivovitz, Bedrich and his daughter-in-law Drahomira climbed into the space Marian had left in the lumber. Marian followed, pulling some boards over his head. As the train pulled out for Trieste, the men went to work lining their tiny stateroom with...
...rapture of the depths is much like the mountain climber's euphoria, the exuberant dizziness that blinds the climber to danger when the supply of blood oxygen gets thin. Divers fear narcosis. One came back from a record 306 ft. down, and lived to tell about it. Another, Maurice Fargues, plunged down to 396 ft., scribbled his name on a marker, and was pulled to the surface drowned, his Aqua-Lung mouthpiece dangling uselessly. Miami's Skin Diver Root determined to learn more. Why take the risks? Said 52-year-old Diver Root: "I'm going...
...Time to Get Going." Then Root strapped on his 65 lbs. of equipment: oversize rubber foot flippers, two cylinders with enough oxygen (under 2,200 lbs. pressure) to last 25 minutes at 400 ft., and two lead weights, a six-pounder to neutralize his own buoyancy, a three-pounder to aid the descent. Then, with a cheery "It's time I got going," Root donned his face mask and slipped over the side...