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...seven miles south of Burlington and opened their museum the following year. Now a complex of more than 40 acres and 33 buildings, Shelburne contains, among other things, the 220-ft. side-wheeler Ticonderoga, which was shipped overland from nearby Lake Champlain, the jail from Castleton, Vt., the Colchester Reef lighthouse, a fully equipped 19th century pharmacy, and a Victorian railroad depot. Some of the buildings had to be dismantled to be moved and painstakingly reassembled at Shelburne. Such difficulties do not deter Mrs. Webb. "Please, Mother,'' one of her five children once begged, "if someone offers...
...John Gunther's High Road (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.). The globetrotter explores The Great Barrier Reef, a chain of coral islets off Australia's northeastern coast. Repeat...
Steady old Keith has also sealed a bargain with adventure. During a typhoon the yacht smashes up on a coral reef near Tahiti, and Janice's parents are killed. As the child's trustee, Keith pieces together the puzzle of her missing legacy: the box of "trinkets" contained ?27,000 in diamonds smuggled out of England to dodge currency restrictions. Keith's conscience will not let him rest until he gets a look at the wreckage on that distant coral reef...
...fields are opening up for free divers, who, like Cousteau, soon tire of skewering fish as too easy (cracks one Frenchman: "It's like chasing elephants in a sports car"). The move is toward wreck-hounding, tracing 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...
...horizons expanded, the naturalist in Cousteau soon became disgusted with spearfishing, and he gave it up ("We have a tremendous responsibility to nature"). He noted that the fish quickly became wary of the spearfisherman. "An atmosphere builds up in a reef that is understood by the younger fish," says Cousteau. ''The fish learn to avoid the man with the gun. The longer the gun, the farther away the fish keep...