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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Here are some of the things that Soutter pointed out to me: You jump with an emergency parachute on your chest which you deploy in case of a malfunction in the main canopy. On your first five jumps, in accordance with Parachuts Club of America regulations, you use a static line, which means that your rip cord is pulled for you as soon as you leave the plane...

Author: By James R. Ullyot, | Title: The Mad Sport Of Skydiving | 8/2/1962 | See Source »

...race of Homo sapiens, equipped with log boats, bows and arrows. In the blind struggle of mutual fear waged in the dark forests, the new men kill the last Neanderthal woman. The last dawn man crawls back to his cave and docilely assumes the burial posture, knees drawn to chest. At the edge of the cave can be seen the shapes of hyenas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: False Dawn | 7/27/1962 | See Source »

...Toledo, from which he graduated in 1915. For nearly 20 years, he served in Spanish Morocco, where he won a reputation as a fair, able officer. In 1925, while leading one of the Spanish army's Moorish battalions against the Berber uprising in Morocco, he suffered serious chest wounds. One of the leading planners for this campaign was Munoz Grandes' close associate,Colonel Francisco Franco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: CARETAKER AFTER FRANCO | 7/20/1962 | See Source »

Beveridge made another incision in the baby's chest so that he could join the two separated sections of her esophagus-but the sections were too far apart to be sewn together. All the surgeon could do was close the opening between esophagus and windpipe, and bring the end of the upper section of the esophagus outside the neck to provide drainage; Denise would depend on the stomach tube for feeding. At 6 a.m., the second incision was closed. Denise was soon able to take in and dispose of liquids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Little Mouse | 7/20/1962 | See Source »

Blacked Out by War. Although the operation was developed in Japan 20 years ago, Dr. Overholt, whose Overholt Thoracic Clinic is one of the world's most distinguished centers for treatment of chest diseases, heard of the technique only in 1957. Then, a visiting Japanese physician described work done by Professor Komei Nakayama of Chiba University during World War II's blackout on international reporting of scientific advances. A huskily built, aggressive and imaginative surgeon, Dr. Nakayama reasoned that earlier operations on asthma patients had been based on mistaken theories of how human nerve networks function. He concluded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Surgery for Asthma | 6/22/1962 | See Source »

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