Word: swimming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fashionable sport of skin diving has been taken up, rubber flippers, aqualungs and all, by serious geologists. Last week Magnolia Petroleum Co. told how its geological skin divers swim along the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico looking for information that will help find pools...
Shortly after 11 o'clock one night last week, two women and a 16-year-old girl slipped from a Youngstown, N.Y. dock into the black waters of Lake Ontario. Their mission: to swim the 32 miles across the chill, changeable lake, a feat no man or woman had ever done...
...other coughed and went dead. The plane landed on a calm sea, only a mile from shore, but it carried no lifebelts, jackets or dinghies (required only when a flight is more than 30 minutes over water). Before boats from shore could reach the plane, it sank. Unable to swim, two of the women passengers and the boy drowned...
From a distance, the DeLong platform looks like nothing else on land or sea. It stands serenely above the water while the waves slosh among its eight thick legs. Schools of fish and porpoises swim around it, and files of comic pelicans flap slowly past. All the time the drill is turning, biting into the rock thousands of feet below. If the platform must be moved, the barge shins slowly down its legs and pulls them out of the mud. A complete move takes less than a day, and costs less than moving a drill rig on land...
Gary was not thrown into show business on a sink-or-swim basis. His father's good friends and old employees, Bill Morrow and Murdo Mackenzie, are directing and writing the Gary Crosby Show; the announcer is veteran Ken Carpenter, a long time Bing sidekick, who remarked cheer fully that he was set for life "as long as I don't run out of Crosbys." Father Bing himself supplied a word of tactful advice ("Always be on time") and thoughtfully stayed away from the first recording session just in case he might make his son nervous...