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...euphoria, the exuberant dizziness that blinds the climber to danger when the supply of blood oxygen gets thin. Divers fear narcosis. One came back from a record 306 ft. down, and lived to tell about it. Another, Maurice Fargues, plunged down to 396 ft., scribbled his name on a marker, and was pulled to the surface drowned, his Aqua-Lung mouthpiece dangling uselessly. Miami's Skin Diver Root determined to learn more. Why take the risks? Said 52-year-old Diver Root: "I'm going to dive for the same reason people climb high mountains...
...rescue work was a Coast Guard cutter. In the third boat was an oceanographer of the University of Miami's marine laboratories.The oceanographer would trace Root's descent with echo sounding gear, just to make the record official. As an unofficial measure. Root planned to pull a marker off the cable at 430 ft.: "That's the one I'll have...
...Nathanson, top varsity skipper and rated best skipper in the East, pulled the Crimson to within one point with one event remaining, but Tim Brown was forced into a marker and fouled out in the final race, which GWU took to win the meet...
...slight quartering wind, the Yale J.V.s prevented a Princeton sweep as they defeated the Orange and Black by one and a quarter lengths. The Eli shot ahead at the start and continued to pull out, while Princeton and the Crimson seesawed back and forth until the three-quarter marker...
...days of lethargy, of card games and of leisurely manning of marker balloons and searchlights at the Panmunjom truce-talk site were over. The U.N. was taking seriously the Communist offer to discuss immediate exchange of "seriously sick and wounded" prisoners of war. Working like beavers, U.N. crews rapidly set up a processing center and a mobile surgical hospital. The hospital staff ran through a practice drill. In cases of malnutrition, the medical people were ready to stuff the returnees with calories and vitamins. Every available helicopter was standing by; two hospital ships, one U.S. and one Danish, were anchored...