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...last resort, if the marlin is angry enough, he will even launch a banzai attack; virtually every boat in the Club de Pesca's fleet carries chunks of marlin bill embedded in its hull. Or the big black may simply outlast his tormentor. At Pinas Bay recently, a little lady from California battled a 900-lb. black marlin for nine solid hours, only to lose when darkness fell and crewmen were unable to gaff the fish...
...CORDELL HULL, by Julius W. Pratt. Though he was Secretary of State for nearly twelve years, Hull learned curiously little about either statesmanship or psychology. Pratt's is a straightforward biography that shies away from judgments...
...that stands in their way is a mutinous crew, a maelstrom and Sidney Pokier, a Moorish prince. He, too, dreams of the golden "Mother of Voices," but hears only the wail of his neglected Queen Rosanna Schiaffino. Pokier captures the vikings in a highly photogenic battle beside their shipwrecked hull...
...Alvin (named for Oceanographer Allyn Vine), is a perky little craft built by Litton Industries with Navy funds for the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. It is 22 ft. long, weighs 13 tons, and has a reasonably conventional submarine shape, but the outside hull serves only for streamlining and control. When Alvin submerges, the water enters that thin skin freely. Inside is a 7-ft. sphere with walls of high-strength steel 1.33 in. thick to protect the crew from water pressure down to 6,000 ft. Its four viewing ports permit the pilot and observer to see ahead and below...
...Deepstar, which looks like a close cousin to Alvin, is being built by Westinghouse in collaboration with Jacques-Yves Cousteau, co-developer of the Aqua-Lung. It, too, has a streamlined outside hull containing a thick-walled pressure sphere to protect its crew. Its intended depth will be 12,000 ft., and it will have a claw like a giant lobster. Deepstar will not be ready until 1965, when Westinghouse will begin using it in its own underwater research, besides leasing or selling it to other organizations that feel an urge to explore the ocean bottom...