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...their tents at 6 a.m., the boys run three-quarters of a mile to a frigid stream and plunge in. They spend hour after hour training muscles, learning survival techniques, studying mountain-craft, developing leadership. In between come big endurance tests: a five-day climb in windswept high country, a six-mile run up and down mountains (best boy's time so far: 38 min. 10 sec.), a 50-mile hike to test speed and accuracy over a specified route, a 48-hour session alone in the woods without food, which becomes a lesson in the edible qualities...
...tubing-which is actually one tube inside another-permits the frigid liquid (-4°F.) to be pumped in and out, constantly recooled and recirculated, until the stomach is frozen to rocklike hardness. But most patients, though fully conscious, feel no discomfort. "Strangely,'' a Wangensteen team member told the American Surgical Association last week, "no patient has complained of the cold tube in his mouth or throat. Nor has any evidence of frostbite of the tongue been observed...
Among the more inhospitable segments of the earth's surface, the frigid continent of Antarctica remains-for scientistsצne of the most magnetic. There is still so much to learn that more than a dozen nations maintain expeditions there. Last week, as they took over their new research ship Eltanin, assorted scientists supported by the National Science Foundation prepared to push U.S. exploration still further-into Antarctica's dangerous, storm-churned seas...
...toast their sweethearts with this bland fluid? Does the Government christen its boats with a magnum of milk? Has any true American male, homeward bound, ever tarried in his favorite bar to down a beaker of milk on the rocks ? Have you ever tried to warm the frigid inner man with a cool goblet of milk-homogenized or otherwise...
...town of Chandrapore. An informal tea party introduces us to a circle of characters: the impulsive, Dr. Aziz, a young Indian who desires friendship with the English; the host, Mr. Fielding, a wise English teacher who is immediately attracted to Aziz. And two Englishwomen: Miss Adela Quested is a frigid young thing, engaged to an English magistrate in Chandrapore; and the mother of her fiance is Mrs. Moore. They accept Aziz's invitation picnic with him at the Marabar caves...