Word: sunkenness
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Frank Sinatra: At first there were only the bony fingers on the screen snapping out the electric rhythms against a black backstop. Then the camera pulled back to pick up the little man with the zooty clothes, the sad, sunken face and the glandular voice that coiled around Lonesome Road ("Lord, I'm gettin' mighty weary of this cotton pickin' load"). With the assured grace of a precision instrument, Crooner Frank Sinatra was making a TV comeback (after a flop in 1952) with his own show and the fattest contract in show business. For 13 half-hour...
...three years ago, when he became Ambassador to Honduras. A powerfully built six-footer who once played fullback for Princeton, Willauer found few facilities for recreation in Tegucigalpa, took up skindiving to keep himself in trim. In the blue depths off Honduras' Caribbean coast, he hunted unsuccessfully for sunken pirate ships, learned to spear groupers, rockfish and tarpon...
Waved Off. The Egyptians stopped dragging their feet on Suez Canal clearance long enough to say that they had found no explosives in the sunken tug Edgar Bonnet-presumably enabling 71-year-old Lieut. General Raymond A. Wheeler, chief of the U.N. salvage force, to get on at last with clearing the canal's last big obstructions. Engineer Wheeler himself, in a black Homburg, tried to approach the tug by boat but was waved off by the Egyptians, and with his usual care not to give or take offense, agreed that he should have made an appointment first...
Odyssey (Sun. 4 p.m., CBS). "Buried Treasure-40 Fathoms Deep," an exploration of sunken Spanish galleons off the Florida Keys...
...Dutch diver named Flip Gwoud suited up aboard a Danish launch at the southern entrance to the Suez Canal. Then he slid over the side to mark the sunken wreck of the Egyptian frigate Abikir. Minutes later the Danish tug Protector chugged past to start work on a wrecked dredger blockading passage eight miles farther north. Thus at last the U.N. salvage fleet began its huge job of clearing the 40 wrecks that block the Suez Canal...