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...Republican Durward Hall demanded the entire journal of the preceding session be read. The clerk had barely begun to drone when Minority Whip Leslie Arends of Illinois leaped up and demanded a quorum count, which includes a full roll call of the House. McCormack had to comply. The count ate up half an hour. It was hardly finished when Iowa Republican H. R. Gross asked for another. And so it went all afternoon and into the night. Majority Leader Carl Albert accused the opposition of filibustering. Tempers frazzled, blood pressures rose, and the House stayed dead center until McCormack...
...finding that mystified the doctors was the astronauts' significant weight loss. Cooper weighed in for lift-off at 152 Ibs., returned 7½ Ibs. lighter; Conrad started out at 154 Ibs., finished 8½ Ibs. lighter. The astronauts ate only 2,000 calories a day, compared with the 2,700 calories provided for them-but then, neither of them is a heavy eater. Dehydration? Though both astronauts drank six pints of liquid daily-which would seem to preclude the possibility of dehydration-doctors figured that there must be some still unknown factors in space flight that do dehydrate...
...been studied scientifically. In 1952, to prove that properly trained men could endure the most extreme conditions, French Physician Alain Bombard set out from France to cross the Atlantic in a 15-ft. dinghy-without once tapping his sealed crate of emergency supplies. He caught dolphins and birds and ate them raw, endured three rainless weeks by drinking juices he pressed from fish, dew scraped up from the deck, and a daily pint of sea water. In the course of his 65-day voyage, Bombard lost 55 Ibs., suffered from diarrhea, a rash that covered his body, and pockets...
...serving meals both in the Union and in Quincy House, but now Quincy sits abandoned, lifeless in the midst of the 350 girls filling it, all of whom have to eat at the Union along with the other 4350 people in the Summer School, who, if they all ate there, would have to be served at the rate of 8 1/2 people a second in order to get their food in the frantic hour and a half allotted by the aforesaid Summer School administration, which can still alleviate the whole mess by opening up the Quincy House dining room, just...
...Offertory, with a chorus crooning the syllables of "hallelujah," reminded some listeners of mood-setting supper music. "That's the idea," says Episcopal Father Charles Gompertz, who persuaded Guaraldi to undertake the Musical Setting. "What does Communion represent but the Last Supper-the last time these men ate together...