Word: andeans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Temperate Water. Dr. Newell went to Peru to collect fossils of shellfish that lived and died in the ancient sea. The shells, embedded in the sedimentary rocks, are an accurate key to the age and origin of the strata. He brought back two tons of specimens, grubbed out of Andean rocks by U.S. and Peruvian assistants...
Give & Take. Soon trans-Andean telephone wires were humming. González spent an hour telling President Perón about the plot. Perón quickly sent to Santiago for more details. When Cunja and Jakasa deplaned at Mendoza, Argentine police hustled them away. Perón's Government announced that both would return to Yugoslavia...
...Hannes Schneider's Alberg school has ruled for years, and uncounted thousands have angled their skis in stem and snowplow turns. But to a man, the Portillo pupils raved about Allais. His theories, the Americans predicted, would soon sweep the U.S. Chile's Government, eager to foster Andean sport and latch on to a few badly needed tourist dollars, hopes to sign Allais to a five-year contract that will keep him teaching his tricks at Portillo...
When the institute got help and money, it studied Andean Man in the flesh. The highland Indians, Dr. Monge found, get their resistance to altitude from definite physical differences. Their lungs are bigger than normal, with more blood vessels in them. Their blood is in greater volume and contains more oxygen per unit. Their hearts can do 12% more work than the hearts of sea-level men. Their nerve cells are less sensitive to anoxia (oxygen starvation...
...Monge will soon be joined by Dr. Harry G. Armstrong of the School of Aviation Medicine at Randolph Field, Tex., a leading U.S. authority on high-altitude effects. He ought to learn much, Dr. Monge thinks, by studying Andean Man, a fellow already adapted to altitudes almost as high as many an airplane...