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Looking like a seal and feeling mighty seasick, U.S. Frogman Fred Baldasare, 38, lumbered from the Dover surf into the arms of his frisky German fiancee with a new record of sorts: he was the first man to swim the English Channel underwater. For 18 hr. 1 min. the former U.S. Army film director submarined along 15 feet beneath the surface, accompanied by a launch and encased in a steel cage that kept the aqualunged swimmer from drifting off course. Said the feisty Floridian, who prepped for his 22-mile swim by traversing the Straits of Messina's Scylla...
...Leyte Gulf. The studio needs an obsolete cruiser, an obsolete flattop and two obsolete submarines with deck guns. The Pentagon has refused to help with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Follow the Boys, even though M-G-M agreed to take out a scene that shows an admiral getting seasick. The Pentagon is, by and large, against comedies...
...Moreau still remains a mystery. His males are disconcertingly female; his females are almost invariably feline; the colors of his salon canvases-seasick green, hepatitis yellow, muddy brown-are faintly repellent. Moreau took as a principle something he called la belle inertie-a kind of suspended animation that seems less dreamlike than dead. Another Moreau doctrine was that of la richesse nècessaire. His big scenes from mythology and the Bible almost choke to death on their own bejeweled detail...
...chess (he has 140 games going simultaneously by mail), model shipbuilding and music. An accomplished pianist who plays nothing but Bach. Romagna has mastered 672 Bach compositions, sometimes working three hours over a single measure. He practices anywhere, whenever time permits, often going to heroic lengths: he once got seasick practicing aboard Truman's yacht Williamsburg-which was tied up at the dock...
...must confess that I feel a little unworthy." As if his radio transmitter were stuck in mid-orbit, Soviet Cosmonaut Sherman Titov last August repeatedly exulted, "I am eagle, I am eagle . . ." Last week a report newly published by two Russian scientists revealed that Titov had also been as seasick as a puppy during the 25-hour flight. Although the Siberian-born jet jockey spun his dials satisfactorily despite the malaise and disorientation, the Russian experts admitted what many physiologists have long suspected: that the human capacity to endure prolonged weightlessness remains to be proved...