Word: andes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their work from strange angles, have now been climbing mountains to make a study of undersea rocks. Last week Dr. Norman D. Newell, of New York City's American Museum of Natural History and Columbia University, was studying fossil seashells he had just brought back from the Peruvian Andes. They told him about the strata (possibly oil-bearing) deep under the Amazon Basin hundreds or thousands of miles away. They also suggested that an ancient ice age once chilled the sea water right across the equator...
...village of ski-club huts within sight of Santiago. Argentines rode the ski tow to the top of Vermont-like foothills around the lake town of Bariloche. Luckiest of all were those who bucked the drifts to Portillo, 9,300 feet high and right in the ribs of the Andes...
Novices rode a ski tow to take their first headers on a broad, snow-padded slope within easy stretcher-bearing distance of the hotel. But Kanonen (experts), led by Skimaster Allais, climbed by ski to the Christ of the Andes for a Schuss of six glorious miles tc Portillo. Or they took a thundering trail three precipitous miles to Juncal where railway handcars pumped them back to Portillo...
Actress Joyce Mathews, whose first husband was a son of Venezuela's late Dictator Juan Vicente ("Tyrant of the Andes") Gómez, said she was now going to divorce Comedian Milton Berle. She added sweetly that he was "a swell person and a great artist" anyway...
...counteracts the oxygen starvation caused by certain poisons (cyanide, carbon monoxide). Acting as a catalyst, the drug improves oxygen absorption by the red blood cells, thereby helping the body to make the most of a curtailed oxygen supply. Recently Dr. Brooks journeyed to Peru, where travelers in the high Andes are subject to soroche, a common fainting sickness caused by lack of oxygen (TIME, June 23). Dr. Brocks took some medical students up to an altitude of 15,000 feet and gave them methylene blue capsules. Result: no one became ill of soroche. The doctor, announcing her successful experiment last...