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...compressed air to float the Queen. A diver went down, looked at the gaping holes in the starboard side; they ranged down as far as 46 ft. Lloyd Deir decided the team would need a prefabricated patch to cover the holes. It would have to be of three-eighths-inch steel, 20 ft. by 30 ft., weighing eleven tons. Deir and the others crouched on the deck, drew diagrams in chalk. "We all pitched in," says Cook Henley Doughtie, "but you can't really help Lloyd Deir. He's the kind of guy that wants to do everything...
...King was shaking nervously, could hardly speak, and had difficulty standing up . . . He had a secretion at the corner of his mouth which appeared to be dried blood." McCuistion, testified Wilkinson, was in worse shape: "He was crying and weeping and saying, 'Colonel, they beat me within an inch of my life...
...Oxford's David Churchill leaped 22 ft., 4 in. to edge Harvard's Liles by one-quarter of an inch in the broad jump, and Roger Lane of Oxford hurled the javelin 206 ft., 9 1-2 in. for another British triumph. Taylor tied the meet mark of 9.8 to win the 100, as Landau, Yeomans, and Cambridge's Dewi Roberts...
...Observatory on Garden St., staff member Hector Ingrao will try to photograph the eclipse with a 15-inch refractor...
...graffito, which the artist and his 15-year-old son Peter completed in one day late in August, is 30 feet wide and 16 feet high. Working behind a team of plasterers who spread a quarter inch of white stucco over the black wall, Nivola first outlined his figures in paint with a thin brush. Then he and his son filled in the outline with solid blues, yellows and orange. Finally Nivola scratched deep lines through the colors and plaster to the black wall...