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Dillon Field House was laundering over 4000 towels a day at the time, as the existing athletic program gave way to an intensified effort at civilian fitness and military drill. Simultaneously, actual civilian enrollment in the University shrank to less than 1000 as 5000 servicemen enrolled in a panoply of 13 different on-campus military programs. Even the CRIMSON shut up for a moment as its editors suspended publication in favor of printing a non-editorializing, twice-weekly-sheet unimaginatively titled the Harvard Service News...
Even as their own Mars vehicle raced toward its goal, the Soviets had another reason to be pleased. Six months after its landing, the eight-wheeled moon rover, Lunokhod I, was still continuing its lunar explorations, digging up soil samples with a conical drill and analyzing them with on-board instruments. It was also photographing the moonscape and scanning the heavens with an X-ray telescope that has already detected at least two sources of X-ray emissions in distant space. So overjoyed were the Russians by Lunokhod's performance that Pravda was moved to proletarian metaphor and compared...
...slit open the pericardium and examined the heart. Another surgeon, meanwhile, opened the patient's thigh and removed a foot-long section of the saphenous vein, one of four major veins that carry blood from the lower limbs to the heart. Effler began rapping out commands like a drill sergeant, initiating the procedure to shut down the patient's heart and turn its functions over to a heart-lung machine. Then, after stopping the still-beating heart with a split-second electric shock ("Juice!" he demanded), Effler began the operation that would save his patient's life...
...long march, and columns of children set off into the countryside in the mornings. "Also part of the scene," says Saar, "is the sound of whistles and the shouting of time in the old German army style, as great masses of children of all ages drill outside." He got the feeling of "a population marshaled by a military system but not overtly for military purposes." Among the hundreds of army men he saw, very few carried rifles, and the drilling children did not wear uniforms. "This might be a false impression, since what I've described is confined...
South Marsh Island 73's heartbeat is a powerful oil drill rotating 140 r.p.m., pushing 200,000 Ibs. of pipe with 4,000 Ibs. of pressure. There is an omnipresence about its throb and its beat, shaking the two-storied concrete bunkers the men live in, even as they sleep. It rarely ceases. "Ain't enough wind or rain, ice or fog to ever stop that son of a bitch," one crewman observes with grudging respect...