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...this fascinated U. S. Marine Geologist James W. Mavor Jr. of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, who sailed to Thera last year in the institute's research vessel, Chain. When his seismic profiles of the island showed geophysical conformations that seemed to match Plato's description of Atlantis, Mavor organized a full-fledged expedition headed by Greek Archaeologist Spyridon Marinates and including Professor Emily Vermeule, research fellow at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. Shortly after the diggers arrived, they detected artifacts buried in a 2,500-ft. swath across the island. Digging nine trenches, the group...
Each month, somebody, somewhere, nearly bursts a blood vessel over the cheeky covers of newly prosperous Esquire. In June, the magazine's cover took off on Jacqueline Kennedy. In a doctored photograph, Esquire showed her sledding with Crooner Eddie Fisher, under the quote: "Anyone who is against me will look like a rat - unless I run off with Eddie Fisher." Last November, a ventriloquist's dummy made to look like Hubert Humphrey graced the visible part of a foldout cover. Said the dummy: "I have known for 16 years his courage, his wisdom, his tact, his persuasion...
...barge locks, making the Paraná navigable and giving the interior an outlet to the sea at Rio de la Plata. Moreover, the northernmost tributaries of theParaná nearly touch the southern tributaries of the Amazon. Engineers suggest that a canal might eventually join the rivers so that a vessel could enter South America at the mouth of the Amazon, do business along the interior route, and exit at Buenos Aires...
...Despite the Israeli attack on the U.S. communications ship Liberty that cost 34 dead, 75 wounded. One officer of the stricken vessel, which was strafed and torpedoed some 15 miles off the Sinai coast, said: "To put it bluntly, she was there to spy for us. We moved in close to monitor the communications of both Egypt and Israel. We have to. We must be informed of what's going on in a matter of minutes." Some of the crew maintained that the attack was deliberate, though Israel denied...
...used for reproductions that fool not only the eye but the sense of touch as well, duplicating both the color and raised brush stroke of oil on canvas. Surrealist Painter Max Ernst, for one, was astonished when technicians in France showed him duplicates of his 1966 work, The Phantom Vessel: "I was absolutely incapable of detecting that they were not my original...