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...obsession that ended last week when a ship's rusty safe was consigned to the shark tank of the New York Aquarium. Twenty-five years ago, on July 26, 1956, only eleven hours after colliding with the Swedish liner Stockholm, the Andrea Doria, flagship of the Italian Line, sank some 250 ft. down to the continental shelf. Fifty lives were lost. The next day Department Store Heir Peter Gimbel, then 28, went chugging out to sea looking for the buoy that marked the Andrea Doria 's grave about 50 miles south of Nantucket. Gimbel dove through a cloud...
...some of them. During the 1824 campaign, John Quincy Adams was approached by an old farmer, who said: "My wife, when she was a gal, lived in your father's family; you were then a little boy; and she has often combed your head." Adams' reply effectively sank the exchange: "Well, I suppose she combs yours now." William Howard Taft's advisers desperately tried to hide his poor memory for names and faces. It did not work. Approached by a voter at one rally, Taft blurted out: "They tell me I ought to remember you, but bless...
...deep, abutting Florida's Route 241 outside of Gainesville. It was excavated at the site of what once was a fast-moving stream that flowed into a great salt marsh along the Gulf of Mexico. Bodies of dead animals collected in the water, and the remains sank to the bottom of the stream. As layer after layer of sediment piled up, the stream eventually vanished, but the bones of the fauna were fossilized and preserved...
...higher oil prices, sharply increased competition from subsidized foreign airlines and the start of deregulation of the U.S. airline industry. Saddled with older, fuel-guzzling airplanes, oppressive union wages and losses on most of its long-distance hauls because of the sluggish world economy, Pan Am's fortunes sank...
...Yachts. To show he was not just soaking the poor, Reagan said he would initiate new $20 user fees for these luxuries. The plan sank...