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...their first collegiate meets, freshman Nick Sweeney and sophomore Mike Short both helped the Crimson sweep field events. Short placed first in the pole vault by clearing 13 ft., while Sweeney captured the shot put with a toss...
Hoping for some improvement in the pole vault, returning junior Bob Herbst will lead the team in that event. In the long jump, the Crimson will rely on newcomers for improvements...
...engineer who helped design a lunar-surface drill for the Apollo program, mated one of his company's drills with an ingenious air-lock seal. An industrial vacuum cleaner at the site sucked the dust from around the hole once the drilling got under way. To see inside the vault, technicians modified a miniature remote-controlled video camera so it could be inserted into the 3 1/2-in.-wide entrance hole. The camera, originally designed to probe the interior of nuclear reactors, provided fiber- optic light without introducing any heat into the chamber. Over the site was a makeshift scaffold...
...unsinkable" liner foundered on its maiden voyage in 1912, at a cost of 1,500 lives. The program's climax: the opening of the safe, a stunt that will inevitably be compared with TV Correspondent Geraldo Rivera's much ridiculed 1986 on-camera opening of Al Capone's empty "vault" in Chicago (a show also produced by Westgate). After filing unsuccessfully to block the broadcast, Florida Investor Michael Harris and four coplaintiffs are suing Westgate and other investors for $300 million, claiming they were cheated out of a share of the profits...
...less fascinating than the diaries themselves were Goebbels' efforts to protect them. As the British bombed German cities, he had 20 clothbound notebooks placed in a bank vault. Later he had the entire inventory put on microfiche. In the final days of the Third Reich he arranged for several volumes to be brought to his underground bunker, determined even then to preserve his version of history...