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...year-old 252-ft. attack sub of the Skipjack class, Scorpion was returning to Norfolk, Va., from a cruise in the Mediterranean with 99 officers and men aboard. On May 21, just south of the Azores (see map), she filed her last "movement report" before transiting the inadequately charted undersea mountains of the mid-Atlantic. Not until six days later was the Navy aware that anything was amiss-and then only when Scorpion failed to report her arrival off the U.S. coast. The cold-war code for U.S. nuclear subs requires them to cruise submerged without any radio signals that...
...UNDERSEA WORLD OF JACQUES COUSTEAU (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* The rebroadcast of the opening program, "Sharks," shows flipper-tipped explorers fearlessly aswirl in a terrifying assortment of hammerheads, blue whalers, tiger and white-tipped sharks...
...recent "Second Festival of the Arts Today," staged at the Albright-Knox Gallery (TIME, March 15), included five abstract environments. Drollest among them was the Pneumatic Garden of Eden, created by M.I.T.'s Otto Piene, in which huge, air-filled plastic tubes waved in the air like undersea coral growths in a darkened room lit at shin level by slowly flashing lights. Delicately disturbing was Lucas Samaras' Mirrored Room No. 2, part of the Albright's permanent collection. The room (see overleaf) was plated with mirrors on the walls, floor and ceiling. Looking up, festivalgoers could...
Monday, April 15 THE UNDERSEA WORLD OF JACQUES COUSTEAU (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). "Search in the Deep." The oceanauts of the Calypso journey to the Island of Europa in the Mozambique Channel, foremost breeding ground of giant green sea turtles, those mysterious and ancient armored behe moths that sometimes grow to 800 Ibs. and the span of two arms' lengths across their shells...
...UNDERSEA WORLD OF JACQUES COUSTEAU (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* Cousteau's crew goes down 80 ft. in the Indian Ocean to study the struggle for survival among such creatures of the coral reefs as moray eels, poisonous lion fish and killer crabs camouflaged like sponges...