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...contingent, which apparently slipped in over the Cambodian border five miles away, overran five adjoining strategic hamlets and one Self-Defense Corps post. Refusing to let the hamlets' 4,000 peasants flee for protection, the Viet Cong fought off 500 counterattacking paratroopers and other government contingents backed by dive bombers, napalm and artillery. Finally the Reds withdrew toward Cambodia, having inflicted the worst government toll of any single action so far in the war: 94 dead, 32 wounded...
...approaching lunar surface. With the moon 900 miles away and Ranger approaching at 4,000 m.p.h., the six cameras would start taking pictures-more than five per second. Radioed back to earth, those pictures would have helped pick a site for future manned moon landings. But in its final dive, Ranger 6 made its first failure. Its TV cameras did not warm up to full power and no pictures came back to earth. Goldstone scientists could console themselves that they had made a remarkably accurate shot-and that they had three Rangers left to give them their longed-for look...
White himself learned to fly and skin-dive, was a proficient cameraman, hunter, horseman, sailor, archer, painter, naturalist, fisherman, falconer. From a mind as chockablock as Merlyn's cottage-or his own-he could unlimber the rules of jousting, describe the nervous systems of fish, discourse on medieval cocktails (one favorite was called Father Whoresonne). He was the first scholar to translate a medieval Latin bestiary into English; he produced a minor classic on falconry (The Goshawk), wrote moving poetry...
...Scholander told the American Philosophical Society last month, is much the same as what happens in the seal, though less pronounced. The human volunteer who holds his breath while his mouth is under water reacts in much the same way as a seal trained to perform a symbolic dive by keeping its snout submerged in a tub. In both, the heartbeat is slowed. More significant, the flow of blood through flippers or feet is sharply reduced. So is the flow of blood through intestines and kidneys-everywhere except in the brain, lungs and heart. Even in active swimming, the extremities...
Visible proof of this is found in seals. They shiver severely after a dive-because they have lost heat in their extremities from lack of circulation. The universality of the phenomenon is demonstrated by the converse in fish: if these normally submerged animals are taken out of the water, they behave very much like land animals that have been put into water. Their hearts slow down, along with the circulation to their extremities...