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...Death's Door. Fastest-growing U.S. area for skindiving is the Northeast, despite water cloudy and cold enough to dismay a mackerel. For warmth, New Englanders may pull on foam-rubber "wet" suits,* will even chip a hole through ice to get at water. In the landlocked Midwest, divers gang together for long trips to Death's Door-a channel off a Wisconsin peninsula jutting into Lake Michigan, where, tucked among hidden reefs, lie more than 200 ships dating back to the 17th century. In parched New Mexico, a club called the Dusty Divers makes weekend round trips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Poet of the Depths | 3/28/1960 | See Source »

...Wet with condensed moisture, and their teeth chattering from the cold of sunless water, the Trieste's men stayed on the bottom for half an hour and then started up, taking with them for later study observations and records of ocean depths no man before had ever seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Bottom | 2/1/1960 | See Source »

When H. E. was twelve, his mother thrust his baby sister's warm, wet diaper in his face. This, together with mother's delight in making water on her hand because it "was good for the skin," gave H. E. a perverse and lifelong fascination with performing or watching micturition. When he married at the age of 32, he made his wife submit to the following pact: separate lodgings, no children, no mutual economic support, lengthy separations, no vows of lifelong fidelity. When his wife embarked on a series of Lesbian affairs, H. E. imperturbably gave his blessing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Omphalosopher of Love | 1/25/1960 | See Source »

...blond wearing a robin's egg-blue dress. She smiled and asked "What's your name and where do you come from." "Panama, but we read the papers down there. I rode up on my burro but his feet got wet crossing the canal." "Oh, really? My father loves horses." They danced for a few minutes, and Gene became bored. "Excuse me, I have to go. Big polo match tomorrow and my horse kicks me if I'm late." "Oh really? My father loves horses...

Author: By Paul S. Cowan, | Title: How the New World Found the Old | 1/20/1960 | See Source »

...perhaps never been to the theater before... you know in this country people feel ashamed about doing what their friends don't, they think it is raising their station.... this way they could tell their friends that they had been to a picnic in a tent...they loved getting wet, they really did. They got involved with me and I with them...

Author: By Alice P. Albright, | Title: Siobhan McKenna | 1/19/1960 | See Source »

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