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World War I was raging in Europe, the Panama Canal had been open only a few months, and John F. Kennedy was not yet born, when a countryish, 30-year-old Georgia lawyer named Carl Vinson was sworn in as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. The date was Nov. 3, 1914. All of the other men who were members that day have since departed from the House, but Vinson remains. On his pinnacle of seniority, he is, at 79, a wielder of vast power and influence, one of the most formidable old lions in Congress...
Twice last week the big U.S. Air Force hospital plane thundered north from La Paz to the Canal Zone, each time carrying strictly quarantined, desperately ill patients plucked from the hinterlands of Bolivia for transfer to the modern facilities of Gorgas Hospital. First to land were Wisconsin-born Dr. Ronald MacKenzie, 38, and Panamanian Technician Angel Muñoz, 42. At Gorgas, the fearful diagnosis made in the field was confirmed: both were victims of a newly discovered and deadly disease, Bolivian hemorrhagic fever. By midweek, the C-130 with its doctor-nurse team had made another trip, carrying...
...grain harbor whose 420-meter jetty will be the world's biggest. Last week, contracts were signed for a $25 million Benelux Tunnel under the Maas River to make access to the outer port easier; Rotterdammers are also building a subway in the soggy soil by dredging a canal down their main street, lowering concrete tubes into it, then pumping the tubes out; eventually they will be covered with earth...
...addition to his classic History and the companion Sensation and Perception in the History of Experimental Psychology, Boring has written psychology texts, a research monograph on The Physical Dimensions of Consciousness, a war manual (Psychology for the Fighting Man), articles on planaria, dementia precox, sensations in the alimentary canal, mental measurement, and the role of great men in the progress of science. Particularly famous papers dealt with the return of sensation in the arm after nerves have been cut, an experiment he performed on himself, and the "moon illusion"--the difference of the apparent size of the moon when...
...cell, half an hour in a cramped black box. In basic training at Florida's Eglin Air Force Base, they are given a tattered piece of parachute from which to fashion shelter, then left to make shift in a swampy area for 3½ days. In the Panama Canal Zone their jungle training is enlivened by tarantulas and real but friendly Indians, who pursue them, try to steal their hats as a symbol of having slain them. The Commandos learn to hunt, cook and eat the loathsome-looking iguana...