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...hardest-bad currents, high seas, a rotting ship. The Doria was a weird wreck, very unforgiving." After a week of clearing debris from the first-class foyer and purser's office, the team found two safes. The divers were able to free one, a Bank of Rome safe, with acetylene torches and hoist it on board. They also solved a question that had long haunted Gimbel: Why had the ship gone down so swiftly? Descending through the hulk, Gimbel and Diver Ted Hess cut a hole in a duct and pushed down past three decks to the generator room...
...staring into a brass bowl filled with water; he is otherwise best known as Charles IX's doctor. Published in November 1980, De Fontbrune's book at first drew little attention. Then, last May, readers began to interpret the attempt on the life of Pope John Paul II in Rome as a fulfillment of Nostradamus' prophecy that a Pontiff would be assassinated ("Roman Pope do not approach the city which two rivers bathe/ Your blood and that of your followers will flow near this place when the rose will flower"). A rose? That had to refer to Mitterrand's election...
...Ovett are not scheduled to race against one another for the remainder of the year. Though both will appear at the World Cup in Rome this weekend, Coe will race in the 800-meters while Ovett is scheduled to compete in the 1,500-meters. Track's odd couple seem content to go on avoiding one another, but track fans are hoping for a true showdown in a dream mile...
...Golden Age of Naples" was not solid all the way through, at least it was elaborately gilded. Any Florentine or Milanese will tell you today that Asia begins south of Rome. In the 18th century it was otherwise: Europe began in Naples...
...hectic days Canadian air-traffic controllers refused last week to handle flights across the North Atlantic between the U.S. and Europe, violating international air-safety agreements and creating chaos at passenger terminals in New York, Boston, London and Rome...