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Records & Rapture. Cousteau maintains that he had no idea what he had started when he first stood on his finger and laughed aloud in his Aqua-Lung. Whole new fields are opening up for free divers, who, like Cousteau, soon tire of skewering fish as too easy (cracks one Frenchman: "It's like chasing elephants in a sports car"). The move is toward wreck-hounding, tracing underground springs through black and frigid waters, studying rock and reef, and taking underwater color movies. Equipped with Aqua-Lungs, divers are gradually taking over much of the work of the traditional helmeted...
...Uttar Pradesh, Kaiser Aluminum and India's Tycoon G. D. Birla were about to break ground for a new $42 million plant that will more than double India's present 18,000-ton aluminum capacity. South of New Delhi, Goodyear was putting in a $12 million tire factory; Firestone and an Indian partner plan another at Bareilly in North India. Nehru himself recently laid a cornerstone in Kerala for a tire plant owned in part by the Dayton Rubber...
...Reason Why. Son of a Lima, Ohio tire and battery dealer, 39-year-old Hugh has picked up most of his post-high-school education on his own. On the Paar show he has been the resident intellectual with a passion for explaining things. The night of the walkout, Paar displayed a toy that worked with magnets, and Downs followed up with a detailed revelation about the existence of positive and negative magnetic attractions. Once Paar told how he had almost tipped over on water skis, whereupon Downs took two minutes to discourse on the mechanics of water skiing. Paar...
...Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. authorized capital expenditures of $90 million for 1960 v. $78 million authorized in 1959, of which $55 million was spent. ¶ Union Carbide Corp. expects construction outlays in 1960 to "increase appreciably" from the $136 million spent in 1959 on expansion of its chemicals, plastics and industrial gas business...
...country took it big. Pro-Paar calls and wires poured into NBC headquarters. Mickey Rooney, who had only recently been involved in a liquid feud with Paar (TIME, Dec. 14), offered Jack a job in a Rooney-owned tire factory. A political-button manufacturer put aside his campaign slogans to produce a lapel ornament that read "Come Back Jack." At Bowie race track, an in-and-outer named Randy-paar, after Jack's daughter, got into the spirit of things and paid...