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...bellows of a spirometer. The motion of the bellows made an electronic dot on the screen of a nearby oscilloscope. A persistent lung disorder usually shows up as a droop in the loop made by the dot as it moves downward across the screen during exhalation. Besides the blow-out test, each Congressman had a chest X ray and filled out a short questionnaire: "Are you ever troubled by shortness of breath? Do you have more than two colds a year...
Every Saturday night they have a blow-out--the ninety-nine cent steak at the Waldorf and a bottle of Vat 69. (Sometimes they buy a can of soy beans instead of steak; more protein for less money.) As the evening dwindles away, they sing camp songs and conjure spirits and chart their astrology from cryptic directions on a weight machine. Look closely, and you will see they have holes in their socks and need a man's deodrant, and the only thing which sustains them is a vision...
Every Saturday night they have a blow-out--the ninety-nine cent steak at the Waldorf and a bottle of Vat 69. (Sometimes they buy a can of soy beans instead of steak; more protein for less money.) As the evening dwindles away, they sing camp songs and conjure spirts and chart their astrology from cryptic directions on a weight machine. Look closely, and you will see they have holes in their socks and need a man's deodorant, and the only think which sustains them is a vision...
...neck, Saldanha man must have walked with a pronounced stoop. He had somewhat less room for brain than Neanderthal man, who is generally considered an unpresentable uncle of modern man, but he had the wit to make and use stone tools. Crude hand axes were found in the blow-out among the bones. Since many anthropologists define man as "the toolmaking mammal," Saldanha will have to be recognized as a genuine, if uncouth...
...last minute program addition, singer Kitty Kallen will appear at the blow-out, although she will not sing, the eight-man Smoker Committee announced last night. At the same time Mile. Charpentier, termed "France's top songbird," notified the committeemen that sudden Philadelphia engagements will keep her from the show...