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Give a biologist a pinch of slime mold-primitive but living protoplasm-and he will have no difficulty predicating an evolutionary ascent, from that bit of animate substance, which leads to large, complex and reasoning beings like himself. Yet the prime question remains: How did the first bit of life appear on earth...
...good book on mountain climbing can give almost any non-climber an attack of armchair vertigo. In The Ascent of Nando. Devi Mountain-Climber Tilman dizzied many a reader with his account of his climb, in 1936, to the summit of India's Nanda Devi (25,660 ft.), the highest mountain ever scaled by man. Last week, while Mountaineer Tilman was on his way to try another climb of Mt. Everest, he dizzied U. S. readers again, in a book that told of his slides, falls and narrow escapes in the mountains of equatorial Africa...
...painful and sometimes fatal diver's affliction called "the bends" is caused by bubbles of nitrogen formed in the blood during a too quick ascent after a deep dive. Helium is so light that it tends to escape from the blood without forming bubbles of damaging size. Thus Nohl's suit considerably reduces the time necessary for a dive. But wishing to take no chances with his first 420-ft. try, he was brought up very slowly, in one hour and 45 minutes...
Bradford Washburn, assistant in Geographical Exploration, will lecture on "The First Ascent of Mount Lucania" on Thursday evening, November 4, instead of this evening, as was erroneously stated in yesterday's CRIMSON. The talk will begin at 8:00 o'clock, and will be open to the public free of charge...
...public lecture on "The First Ascent of Mount Lucania" will be given at the Institute of Geographical Exploration at 3 o'clock tomorrow evening by Bradford Washburn, assistant in Geographical Exploration. Admission will be by tickets which may be obtained free of charge...