People: Aug. 22, 1969

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At one point, an outraged swordfish attacked the underwater craft; another time, a monstrous 30-foot jellyfish with four-inch-thick tentacles loomed alongside. Those were only two of the incidents that famed Swiss Explorer Jacques Piccard and his crew of scientists had to report when their 50-foot submarine Ben Franklin surfaced off Nova Scotia after a 31-day, 1,650-mile drift up the Atlantic coast in the Gulf Stream. Piccard and his five companions spoke of massive undersea waves caused by the swirling of the Gulf Stream's powerful current around uncharted "hills" on the ocean floor. Their 140-ton craft was helplessly tossed about in the rush of water and actually shoved 28 miles west—out of the stream. They were nearly as surprised by what seemed to be huge coral formations at an unprecedented depth of 1,700 feet—indicating that the coastline around Charleston, S.C., once lay 70 miles farther out in the Atlantic.

The theme at the Second International Conference of Social Psychiatry in London was "The Sick Society," and double Nobel Prizewinner (Chemistry and Peace) Linus Pauling offered a novel cure for mankind's various ills. The world would be a better place, he said, if among other things, people could just get enough vitamin C. An optimal intake of the vitamin could mean a 10% improvement in physical and mental health. "What would be the consequences for the world," Pauling asked, "if the national leaders and the people as a whole were to think just 10% more clearly?"

"Since my English is not that good, I wasn't sure if I'd be playing a hippie or a Hopi. But I see it doesn't make any difference." Decked out as a Hopi Indian in headband, feathers and bear-claw necklace, Jean-Paul Belmondo probably created more of a spectacle in Tucson than he would have in Greenwich Village. In the film, Again, a Love Story, with Oscar-winning Director Claude Lelouch (A Man and a Woman), the Hopi bit is just a brief diversion in the adventures of Belmondo and Annie Girardot, who meet and mate as two French tourists motoring across America. "I chose Girardot and Belmondo," said Lelouch, "because they are not really made for each other. If there is love between these two people, it is because they are in a foreign country. In France, nothing would have happened."