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When at age 17 he ventured west from Mount Vernon, N.Y., to seek his fortune, R. Lad Handelman learned quickly that there was more money in diving than in tending a diver's airline, as he had been doing. Says he: "I figured I was on the wrong end of the hose." He became a diver and spent a decade combing the seabed off California for abalone. Today, at 39, Handelman is again topside: this time as president of Oceaneering International, Inc., a Houston-based company that in 6½ years has become the largest publicly owned firm...
...Vernon Proctor '76, who will present the proposal to the committee, said yesterday that allowing students to "dabble in different fields" to fulfill the minor portion of their requirement would "bring flexibility" to the department...
...taken by the Hibernia Bank's security cameras, which clearly showed Patty taking part in the robbery. The defense claimed that the prosecution's reproductions of the pictures left out S.L.A. Member Camilla Hall, who, Patty's lawyers argued, was pointing her carbine at the defendant. Vernon Kipping, the FBI expert who made a movie out of the pictures, testified that the exclusion was "inadvertent." He added that Hall did not seem to be covering Patty but was aiming her gun at the teller's windows. New photographs, including Hall, were shown to the jury...
...Vernon Alden, chairman of the committee, said the group is "not considering anybody who is currently working at Harvard." He added that the panel is now in the final stages of interviewing candidates for the position and expects to announce its choice by the middle of March...
...Rock to Norfolk Naval Base for discharge. Meanwhile, he read of the struggle by Air Force Technical Sergeant Leonard Matlovich (TIME, June 9) to challenge the armed services' ban on homosexuals. Berg too decided to fight. He had the full support of his family, including his father, Commander Vernon Berg Jr., a Protestant chaplain at Great Lakes, Ill., Naval Training Center. Said Commander Berg: "Some people are born lefthanded and some righthanded. In our family we accept people as they...