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...Sunken Caissons. In a country where three-fifths of the population live on land reclaimed from the sea, the closure was a national event. Dutchmen the nation over sat glued to their TV sets; Queen Juliana herself was on hand aboard the royal yacht Piet Hein...
Already in place were six sunken, 5,000-ton concrete caissons developed from types used by the Allies in World War II as assault jetties at Normandy beachheads. Four tugs heaved at the seventh caisson, precisely long enough to fill the remaining 140-ft. gap, fighting the surging tide to keep it poised over its eventual resting place atop an asphalted nylon mat that anchors the shifting sands of the sea's bottom. Precisely at the moment of the tide's turn, when the water was completely still, 25 workmen aboard Caisson 7 frantically twirled at the watercocks...
...taped voice was heard coming over Miami's WMET. Introduced as "Commander in Chief of the Army of Liberation," Artime announced: "I am in Cuba again after my promise last year that I would come back." By battle's end, he reportedly lay dead in the sunken radio ship. There were rumors that there might be important casualties on the other side as well. Ernesto ("Che") Guevara was reported gravely wounded in the head, the result of a suicide attempt following an argument with Castro over command of the armed forces. And the persistent absence of Castro himself...
...actively. Presumably its way of life was to climb trees and launch itself into gliding flight when it wanted to move to another tree or when danger threatened. On one of these glides it must have landed in the lake where its flesh was eaten by fish and its sunken skeleton was covered slowly with silt...
Part One of the three confluent but contrasting parts of L'Avventura (The Adventure) is set on one of the Aeolian Isles, crests of a vast sunken crater in the Mediterranean. By placing his characters in this dead volcano. Antonioni clearly intends to suggest that they are spiritually extinct. The walking dead are idle-rich Italians, members of a yachting party, who lie sunning like lizards on the lava shelves. Anna (Lea Massari), the vivid brunette, is a restless little disperata who finds her life empty and is sick of filling it with sex. Sandro (Gabriele Ferzetti), Anna...