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...Diver Burford spent years in Alaska, mostly pirating salmon from cannery-owned traps or diving to the ocean floor to mend the same traps -amidst sharks and 20-foot octopuses. Once Burford was manning the airline on board ship when another diver in the water below rashly tried to spear an octopus. A hairy tentacle shot out, and for three hours the diver (Scotty Evans by name) was caught 70 feet down in an inhuman tug-of-war between the octopus, which tried to drag him down, and Burford, who tried to haul him up. Finally, at the risk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Coexistence with Giants | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

Total Immersion. In Nice, France, the Ministry of Agriculture announced that it had appointed four underwater game wardens to make sure that spear fishers have fishing licenses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 6, 1954 | 9/6/1954 | See Source »

...hour Le Mans Grand Prix Endurance Race to finish a slim 2.4 miles ahead of last year's winners, Tony Rolt and Duncan Hamilton in their English Jaguar. In third place, with a total of 2,355 miles: an American Cunningham Special driven by Sherwood Johnston and William Spear. In fifth: Briggs Cunningham himself in another Cunningham Special...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Jun. 21, 1954 | 6/21/1954 | See Source »

...first to recognize that Kenya's Mau Mau terrorists were spilling over the border into Tanganyika Territory. Last week one of Tom's ebony tribesmen had seen something moving among his coffee trees and, thinking it was a mere lion, he had charged it with his spear. Instead of a lion, a lion-man sprang out and pointed a pistol at the charging Chagga. The pistol misfired, and the Chagga's spear drove through a Mau Mau terrorist, whose hair was plastered with red clay into the shape of a lion's mane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TANGANYIKA: Invasion by Lion-Men | 5/31/1954 | See Source »

This time, the leading sheik answered with a shrill scream: "Oh cursed one, your time is come!", and drove his spear through Gordon's body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In a Terrible Country | 5/31/1954 | See Source »

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