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...Free Style: won by Duncan, (Y); second, Britton (Y); third, Curwen, (H). Times...
...Curwen, also swimming his last meet, is to team with Lonnie Stowell in the 50 against Captain Russ Duncan and Tom Britton of the Eli. Curwen will do well to take a second in this event, since both Buildogs have cracked 24 seconds for the two laps...
...BRITTON Cranford...
Physiologists Britton and Kline went down to Panama, collected a few sloths (which are fairly tame and amenable) and got to work. First, they clocked the animals' normal progress along the underside of a horizontal pole. Speed of a two-toed sloth: a third of a mile an hour. Speed of a three-toed sloth: two-ninths of a mile an hour...
Sloths are not only undermuscled for their weight but also have an uncommonly low temperature. So Scientists Britton and Kline left their sloths out in the tropical sunshine long enough to raise their temperatures by five or six degrees, and the change was miraculous: they moved 50% faster. Similar speedups were also obtained by injections of adrenalin and prostigmin (an intestinal stimulant), and by scaring them. Subjected to such speedup techniques as this, the Virginia physiologists were pleased to report in Science last week that one thoroughly stimulated sloth hustled along the pole at the relatively dizzy pace...