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Professional wrestlers, the grunting, groaning showpieces of the most thoroughly faked U.S. sport, are maligned men, according to Dr. Charles Davis, physician for the California State Athletic Commission. Wrestling fans are apt to picture their hippodroming heroes as gross, stupid, out of condition, and in general, slobs. Not so, says Dr. Davis-at least not so on the fitness side. Thanks to continual training for weekly and sometimes nightly bouts, says Davis, wrestlers keep in the pink of physical condition. What's more, many of them are in good mental shape as well. Last week, after five years...
...most informal, with girls slouched all over chairs and couches, some lying on the floor. Girls wear almost anything except just shorts and halters. Girls can smoke in almost all classes, and no-smoking signs in the barn and disregarded. Generally, the older students are less informal and less apt to go to class in their pajamas...
Then Adenauer abandoned his old stand, and announced that he too thought that the four big powers should confer on Germany. He attached three stipulations apt to prove sweet to Germans and bitter to Stalin: 1) genuinely free elections in the Soviet zone; 2) no "neutralizing" of the new Germany; 3) revision of the Oder-Neisse (Polish) frontiers. But he would go right ahead with the contract for West German integration with the West...
Here Today . . . Standard atlases do not even agree on heights of some of the Alpine peaks. Some governments like to pad their population figures; some cities boast a bewildering array of spellings-e.g., Jebeil, Jubeil, Jebail, Jubayl, Jbail Djebail, Djoubeil. In Russia, a city's name is apt to change with the size of its population; in China, it can change with the seasonal movement of a district capital (e.g., Shanmulung officially becomes Lungchwan in the winter; Changfengkai becomes Lungchwan in the summer). Islands present a special problem: the South Pacific's volcanic Fonuafoo, for instance, emerged...
...Creation" is easy to read because Gamow is skillful at finding simple, apt illustrations for complex ideas. One good method for determining the age of rocks is based on the transmutation of heavier radioactive into isotopes of lead. Gamow likens the lead accumulations to dung deposits in a corral full of cattle: the cattle represent the radio-actives, the corral--rocks, and "primordial dung"--lead present before the transmission began. Then, he says, by considering the rate of dung-deposition of the cattle (or the half-life of the radioactive elements), we can tell when the cattle entered the corral...