Word: bathtubs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...belonging to the monastery had attacked their goats. Emotions are kept on edge by a proliferation of atrocity photos-the picture of a Greek bakery employee with his head smashed in was countered by the photo of a Turkish mother and her three children lying slaughtered in a bathtub...
More remarkable than Dr. Scholander's interest in the subject and the answer he found was his experimental approach. He took seals to his laboratory at the University of Oslo, strapped them to boards and dunked them in a bathtub, to simulate diving. Now at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at La Jolla, Calif., he works with Dr. Robert W. Eisner, a physiologist who trains seals to simulate diving by voluntarily holding their own noses under a few inches of water...
...More, but Less. The idea that these birds and mammals store up extra oxygen for their endurance dives was exploded long ago. Somehow they manage to survive on less oxygen rather than more. But how? Dr. Scholander soon found out that on submergence in a bathtub the seal's heartbeat is slowed to about one-tenth of its normal rate. This happens so fast that the trigger for the circulatory defense mechanism seems to be psychological rather than physical. Scholander's experiments proved this. A loud, sharp noise produces the same heart-slowing effect on a seal...
...North Shore friends at a cocktail party. The savage flees to dwell in the jungle in earnest; the girl follows on the wings of love. Departing civilization in soulful triumph, she surrenders herself to life and love in a cave-even as native bearers carry into the jungle her bathtub, her refrigerator, her television...
...Americans are taught to defer to Moslem sensibilities. Though the government permits Aramco's Americans to have Christian religious services, it forbids display of the Cross. Imports of whisky, beer and wine are banned, but the men who can refine crude oil have little trouble in distilling bathtub gin and Scotch, known locally as "the white" and "the brown...