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Heavyweight. Long planned (TIME, July 8, 1946), the bathyscaphe is now about completed in Belgium. Cast as two steel hemispheres (see cut), it is 6½ feet in outside diameter. The walls are 3½ inches thick at their thinnest point. The professor thinks that they will withstand nearly 6,000 pounds of pressure per square inch-the pressure he expects to find more than 12,000 feet below the surface...
Bums in Manhattan's dreary, beery Hell's Kitchen seldom visited the Community Mission. The Mission - two big, bare-walled rooms on the street floors of two houses on West 40th Street - offered the thinnest of soup and sermons. But scores of Hell's Kitchen kids found it a charming place. Every afternoon they were invited inside to play. There were always comic books in the hymnal box; nobody objected if small fry yelled in the gospel hall or rolled empty garbage cans along the front sidewalk...
Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt's skillful breakthrough had had the first great element of success: surprise. He had struck the thinnest sector of the American line. He had cleverly begun with light attacks, concealing his intentions, playing upon the Americans' underestimation of his strength...
...Handbook is the thinnest in years. A record number of private schools have closed, because of government lease or purchase, loss of teachers,† students or income, difficulties with food, materials or labor. Many schools have put students to waiting on table, making beds, and cleaning rooms" (as boys at Kent and certain other schools have always done). Especially in New England, students are raising their own farm products. Some schools are lending pupils to nearby farmers (examples: St. Mark's, Hotchkiss...
Tony Pastula, the 24-year-old bomber, came of a Polish family in Youngstown, Ohio. He had a horror of being buried at sea on a rough day. "Perhaps, also," says Dixon, "he had a # Seamen Pastula, Dixon, Aldrich. horror of being eaten [by his mates]." Tony was the thinnest and thought he might be the first to die. Nevertheless, he agreed with the other two that "the survivors should eat the heart, liver and other such organs" of whichever one went first. Says Dixon: "Today I don't believe that any of us had a real intention...