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...Pennine range runs like a spine through the English Midlands. At Peak Cavern, which lies at its southern end, eight experienced "potholers," under the auspices of Britain's Speleological Association, last week began the exploration of a newly discovered underground passage. They first worked their way in by a series of up and down scrambles, then wriggled through a narrow tunnel with a mud floor and a roof that was sometimes no more than 10 in. above their heads. It took them two hours to progress 600 ft. The tunnel suddenly broadened into a fairly large chamber...
Safety Air Seat. A new type of airline seat for protecting passengers in a crash has been adopted by Sabena Belgian World Airlines for use in its new Boeing 707 jets. The seat automatically tips backward on impact until the passenger's spine is nearly horizontal, thus putting his whole body in a better position to withstand the shock. Because of its lower center of gravity, the seat is also less likely to be ripped from the floor...
Warren was a man of extraordinary will. As a child, he had fallen from his carriage and injured his spine. He spent the rest of his life in abominable pain...
...Spine-Tingling Blasts. There are showier, more opulent-sounding baritones than Fischer-Dieskau. But there are no singers about nowadays who use their voices with more intelligence, accuracy or theatrical effect. Fischer-Dieskau never uses his texts as excuses for mere vocal gymnastics. In the art songs of Schubert, Schumann, Wolf, he sings his way into moods alternately tragic, boisterous and nostalgic with subtle modulations of his dry, husky voice. And when at climactic moments he throws his baritone out in a high, ringing fortissimo, the effect is as spine-tingling as a trumpet blast...
Barbara's throaty roar has often made critics mention her name in the same breath as Blues Singer Smith's. She has the same spine-grabbing talent of "bending" a note-hitting her target, then turning on the power as she slides a quarter tone above or below. After Barbara appeared with Louis Armstrong at the Pasadena Jazz Festival last month, the master called an agent cross-continent and gave his own estimate: "Did you get that chick? She's a gasser...