Word: pearle
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Voting for Freedom. Pearl Harbor surprised the U.S.; it awakened Australia. As the Japanese overran Singapore and invaded New Guinea,- and even bombed Darwin in Australia's own Northern Territory, Australians abruptly lost their sense of secure remoteness. Britain, fighting for its life, was in no position to help -and was reluctant to lose the battle-hardened Australian troops in the Middle East. "Without any inhibitions of any kind," wrote Prime Minister Curtin in January 1941, "I make it quite clear that Australia looks to America, free of any pangs as to our traditional links or kinship with...
...Jungle Discovered. To recuperate, Ensign Cousteau was assigned to shore duty at Toulon, spent hours working strength back into his arms by swimming in the Mediterranean. There in 1936 a fellow naval officer named Philippe Tailliez gave him a pair of goggles used by pearl fishermen. Cousteau put his head beneath the surface. Instantly his life was changed: "There was wildlife, untouched, a jungle at the border of the sea, never seen by those who floated on the opaque roof...
...underground springs through black and frigid waters, studying rock and reef, and taking underwater color movies. Equipped with Aqua-Lungs, divers are gradually taking over much of the work of the traditional helmeted diver. They hunt for jade off California, sink oil derricks off Louisiana, scrounge for sponge and pearl in the Mediterranean, raise cannon, coins and crucifixes from Spanish galleons sunk off Florida, and hoist history from ancient submerged towns such as Epidauros, which disappeared in a tidal wave off Yugoslavia in A.D. 365. Last week a Methodist minister and sometime oceanographer from Kansas City donned an Aqua-Lung...
...charge came from a physician with an unusual background. Los Angeles-born Donald L. Donohugh was 17 when Pearl Harbor interrupted his premedical studies at U.C.L.A. He enlisted, then got an appointment to the Naval Academy. Graduating in 1946, Donohugh served six years (through the Korean war) before he could get to medical school (California, '56). After interning in San Diego and a residency in Monterey, he signed up for a two-year stint as a civilian medical officer in Samoa, took his wife and children to Pago Pago. There, last month, convinced that his alarm signals about leprosy...
...hovering helicopters dumped bright flowers on the dented and travel-worn U.S. nuclear submarine Sargo last week as it churned back to its Pearl Harbor home base after a 6,000-mile round trip to the North Pole. When Sargo's boyish skipper, Lieut. Commander John H. Nicholson, 35, told his tale, it was clear that the warm welcome was hard earned by cold courage...