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Just How Deep Is The Ocean ? For a few turbulent days last month, the waters of Salami Sea, just south of Tokyo Bay, had been lashed by a succession Of small typhoons. Then carr.e a rr/srning of gray, heavy calm In the muggy heat of a Japanese dawn, an odd, blimp-shaped vessel, rode the dirty waves slapping against its bulging sides. A red-thatched head popped through the air lock in the centre of the craft, turned foi a last look at the misty sea around, and disappeared, closing the hatch behind him. The French Navy's bathyscaphe - FNRS lit -- was set to begin another descent into the depths of the ocean. Lt. Gabriel Obern, a 25-year-old submariner, clambered down the ladder which runs through the bathyscaphe's "gasbag" hull into the steel gondola attached underneath. Waiting for him there was Prof. Takeharu Kuma-gori of Tokyo Fishery University, his companion on this lonely expedition. Within the sphere's 6%-foot diameter, the two moved gingerly about checking their instruments. Then they began their slow dive to the bottom of the sea. As they passed the 1,000-foot mark, the last of the sun's rays vanished. Looking over Kumagori's shoulder, Obern ssw one of the bathvscaphe'?. three portholes as a luminous disk in the gloomy cabin when he switched on the floodlights. The two men watched sea snow --plankton and marine debris-- "fall" gently upward as they descended. "At about 9,000 feet, we arrived in a narrow rocky canyon," Obern reported later. ' It was the first time we had seen such a thing. The current was very strong. I tried to find the bottom but it was impossible. I was sfraid our engines were not powerful enough, so I decided to ascend. Later, divers inspected the protective wings On either side of the FNRS and discovered we had touched both rock walls. This was the most exciting try we've ever had." At the Uraga Dockyards on the mouth of Tokyo Bay that afternoon, Obern and his chief, Comdr. Georges Houot, enthusiastically discussed the submarine explorations. "Too many people have been looking up instead of down," explained Houot. "Even the scientists have neglected the bathyscaphe. The craters of the moon are better charted than the bottom of the ocean. It is difficult to change the minds of scientific people. They are used to learning about the sea from the surface. In the bathyscaphe we can go down arid see it as it is." Houot's FNRS III, with which he has been diving since 1954, is nothing short of an underwater blimp. Conceived after World Wsr II by diver-balloonist Auguste Piccard, it has a "gasbag" hull filled with 20,000 gallons of gasoline instead of sir. To descend, gasoline is released and water (which is 14 times heavier) allowed tc enter and take its place. For the ascent, bird-shot ballast is elec-tromagnetically dropped lightening the craft. Many of Houot's descents have been made in the Mediterranean where he set a record of 13,287 feet in 1954. The series of Japanese dives in which he and Obern are now engaged (last month's was the sixth of nine) are sponsored by Asahi Shimbun, one of Japan's largest newspaper chains. They were conceived by Frof. Tadayoshi Sasaki, professor of oceanography at the Tokyo Fishery University, and delight- h,. stomach. It was invented by Norman C Brusch Medical Center. The standard-locates the lens opening. In a special cc lowed by the patient without discomfort, up to eight pictures, black-and-white or plied by a built-in bulb. ures inside the human osselin at the Charles tized darning needle psule, it can be swal-The camera can take color, from light sup- Rats In The House ? Try A Mongoose Wendy is a pet, but she has some rather disturbing haoits. For instance, she's quite liable *o leap into your bed early in the morning and start nibbling your toes. But no one seems to mind for Wendy is a pet mongoose, kept oy Mr. Maxwell Knight, the well-known naturalist, and of all the great variety of animals he has had as pets she is the undisputed favourite. Many people have kept mongooses with varying success. They are wild animals, flesh-eaters at that, and so they seldom become really domesticated, however tame they may seem. But Wendy is an exception. I wish you could see her. She is more tame and domesticated than any wild animal Mr. Knight has ever kept before. One's first introduction to Wendy is a unique experience. No dog could give a more friendly greeting or show greater interest With much twittering chat- edly publicized by science editor Saichiro Hanzawa. The enthusiastic editor, however, has had his troubles with the paper's "business side." "They say," says Hanzawa, "that if you throw in 50 million yen ($139,000) you must gain something by increasing circulation, or in some concrete form." Though the final returns are not in, Hanzawa, who has been writing dramatic stories on the perils of bathyscaphe diving, can already point to a number of concrete scientific achievements: Contrary to oceanographic lore, there are strong ocean currents at great depths. According to Professor Sasaki, who has been one of Houot's passengers, these submarine drifts "might make the sea unsafe as a dump-i n g ground for radioactive Houot and Sasaki's June plunge to 9,840 feet set a new record for the Pacific. -- From Newsweek. GREW-SOME TWIST--Named for Its weirdly twisted shape rather than its fruit, this "pretzel" tree stands at Cassville, Wis. A cedar, its brnaches are believed to have been twisted by prevailing winds off the Mississippi River. ter, you are thoroughly "gone over" and accepted as one of the company. Wendy's "home" is a large, airy cage with a snug sleeping compartment attached. She is so lively that it would be impossible to let her have the run of the house all the time. But several times a day she is let out. And how she looks forward to this. Her first journey is into the garden, for she is completely housetrained, an unusual feature in a wild animal. Back indoors she is "into everything." Everyone present must be greeted and if it is early morning, bedrooms have to be investigated in case someone is still in bed. To find a bed occupied delights her. Down the bed she goes, twittering all the time, before reappearing on the pillow Desiae tne sleeper. Elsewhere in the house f>ne is continually searching for' possible tit-bits. Pieces of paper in the waste paper baskets must all be unravelled, while handbags, coal hods, cupboards, and, in fact, any receptacle where food might be hidden, must all be investigated. Her main meals consist principally of raw meat, liver and tripe, but on her outings she has all kinds of tit-bits, such as truit, nuts, biscuits and cake, and she is very fond of sweets. She likes all kinds of worms and insects. Out in the garden she loves to hunt for them and is able to smell and dig out grubs and beetles from beneath the soil with unerring accuracy. Milk she will have none of, being a confirmed water-drinker, though she is not teetotal! If she can find a glass that has contained sherry or gin, she will tip it up most carefully and eagerly lap up the dregs. Having investigated everything, and thoroughly tired herself out, Wendy at last looks for b suitable lap on which she can curl up to sleep like any pet cat Or dog. There are many different kinds of mongooses in Africa and Asia. Wendy belongs to a breed from West Africa. Better known are the Indian mongoose end the Egyptian mongoose. The one fact that everyone knows about mongooses is that they can kill deadly snakes, whereas other small mammals are usually quickly destroyed. The mongoose probably owes its superiority to a combination of tremendous agility and its habit of raising its thick fur when really roused. This makes it look bigger than it is and, if the snake manages to strike at all, it strikes short and fails to reach the skin. In Africa and Asia people often keep tame mongooses to rid their houses of snakes and -ats, To keep down rats, they were once introduced to Jamaica -- with disastrous results. They wiped out the rats, all right, but they had to look elsewhere for food -- and turned their attention to birds, lizards, snakes and even domestic ani- As the snakes, birds and lizards disappeared, so the insects on which they fed were able to increase unchecked and, as a result the crops were destroyed by insect plagues. Finally, it became obvious that the mongoose must go, and large sums of money had to be spent On exterminating the animals that had at first seemea to bring salvation to the island. Tales Of The Baseball Diamond WARM-UP TIME Bob Turley cut loose with a fast one, right over the heart of the plate. Umpire Eddie Rommel called, "Ball one." Turley came charging off the mound. "What do you mean, ball? How could you miss one so badly?" To which Rommel replied, "Look, mister, it took you fifteen minutes to warm up. Can't you give me two or three minutes to do likewise?" SWEETHEART SOFT SOAP The bench jockeying in the 19-29 ■ World Series was unduly loud and vicious--so much so that Judge Landis had to step in and order it stopped. Just before the start of the next game, Mickey Cochrane, tough Ath-letic's catcher, shouted to the Cubs, "Come on, sweethearts, let's go. Tea and cake will be served in the fourth inning." After the A's took the Series, Landis visited their clubhouse to congratulate them. He spoke a few gracious words, then turned to Cochrane and said, "That goes for you, too, sweetheart." RUG CUTTER One day when Branch Rickey was still operating the St. Louis Cardinals, a friend dropped into his office and found him frantically rolling up the rug. "What's the idea?" the visitor stuttered. "You the janitor around here, too?" "Judas Priest!" Rickey gasped. "Give me a hand. I just heard that Mrs. Rickey is coming home tonight, and if I don't get this rug of hers back on the parlor floor,, I'll really be in trouble." CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING He Gets Dollars From Dinosaurs While other businessmen spend millions every year devloping new products to stay ahead of the competition, New Englander Carlton S. Nash keeps out in front with merchandise touted as "the oldest in the world". Nash sells dinosaur tracks tnat are anywhere from 100 million to 200 million years old. "I can't say precisely," says Nash, "but a few million years one way or another doesn't make much difference." For the past 19 years, former geology student Nash has been stripping the tracks.from a shale quarry behind his home in South Hadley, Mass., and selling them to curiosity lovers for use as plaques, book ends, paperweights, ash trays, and as stones on terraces, doorsteps, and fireplace hearths. In all, he has sold more than 3,000 tracks at prices ranging from $10 to $300, depending on size. The smallest tracks were made by dinosaurs the size of rabbits (not all of those prehistoric beasts were huge) and the biggest, up to 20 inches, are the prints of 8-ton, 30-foot Giganteum. At a rough average of $30 each -- Nash is as indefinite about earnings as he is about eons -- Nash's take on tracks has so far come to around $90,000. He adds to that income by selling dinosaur gizzard stones, bones, and fossils, model monsters, and books, and by charging admission to his dinosaur "farm". But last week, modern times seemed to be catching up with Nash's business. As layer after layer of shale was removed, dinosaur tracks were showing up less and less often. Nash was seriously considering selling plastic copies of the prehistorit footprints. AGENTS WANTED DEALERS wanted to handle high quality low priced German automobile. Replies kept confidential. Write/ to P.O. 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