Abstract. This paper describes conditions on the intersection of an «-sphere 2 in Euclidean (n+l)-space En + 1 with the horizontal hyperplanes of En + 1 sufficient to determine that the sphere be nicely embedded. The results generally are pointed towards showing that the complement of 2 is 1-ULC (uniformly locally 1-connected) rather than towards establishing the stronger property that S is locally flat. For instance, the main theorem indicates that £" + 1-S is 1-ULC provided each nondegenerate intersection of S and a horizontal hyperplane be an (»-l)-sphere bicollared both in that hyperplane and in S itself («^4).