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Healthy, wealthy, submersible Department Store Scion Peter R. Gimbel, 35, is wont to prowl around the ocean floor (he dived to the sunken Andrea Doria in 1956, again in 1957) when he is not busy with his career as an investment banker. Now rising above all that, young Gimbel joined a National Geographic Society expedition bound for the Peruvian Andes, early next month will parachute into the remote upper reaches (9,000-14,000 ft.) of the Vilcabamba range-an unmapped area never penetrated by outsiders and considered a possible site of early Inca civilization. Accompanying Gimbel on the three...
...even tougher than that. Nonetheless, the U.S. Navy is determined to locate the sunken nuclear submarine Thresher, 8,000 ft. down on the cold, dark bottom of the North Atlantic. No wreck has ever been found or even seriously searched for at so great a depth. But for weeks a strange fleet of floating scientific laboratories has been cruising the choppy waters 220 miles east of Cape Cod, and this week the weirdest craft of all is being towed into range. The bathyscaphe Trieste is preparing to dive toward the spot that undersea snapshots have tentatively marked as Thresher...
Terraces & Courts. The facilities will be constructed-on as many as seven levels-around sunken courts, terraces and gardens; all interior spaces will be air-conditioned, and circulation between levels will be by elevators, escalators or stairs enclosed in glass kiosks. At the north end, two cantilevered buildings rise to break the otherwise static skyline; at the south end, a series of terraced "hanging gardens" descend from the grade to Panther Hollow Lake, a boating and skating pond below. The whole has been described as a 150-story building "resting on its side...
NORFOLK, Va. May 30--The Navy announced tonight it has definitely found the sunken submarine Thresher...
...week's end De Gaulle returned to the haven of his villa at Colombey-les-deux-Eglises, and 49 bottles of champagne were emptied at a party given for his rural neighbors. De Gaulle seemed tired, his eyes red-rimmed and sunken. Yet he had proved once more his ability to rouse grass-roots enthusiasm whenever he chose. If there were still any doubters, they would be able to watch De Gaulle work his magic again next month, when he plans to tour the Vendee in western France...