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...only near-tally in the Eliot-Leverett tie came when the Elephants pushed to Leverett's four-yard line. Lew Goetz caught a pass in the end zone, but two offside penalties invalidated the pass and a 15-yard penalty for "unsportsman-like conduct" forced Eliot back to the Bunny...
...Heart. Studying dead giraffes was comparatively easy. Dr. Goetz dug a hole in the ground 8 ft. long and filled it with formalin to preserve his massive specimens. Most interesting to Dr. Goetz were the veins and arteries in the giraffes' long necks. To pump blood so high, giraffes' hearts weigh 25 Ibs., 40 times as much as human hearts. The jugular vein is more than an inch in diameter, and is fitted with an intricate system of efficient valves. They apparently protect the giraffe's head from too much blood when its neck is lowered...
Experimenting on live giraffes was more fun, and harder. Dr. Goetz's original idea was to have an archer pot giraffes with arrows tipped with paralyzing curare, but the giraffes were too skittish, and the arrows did not hit them hard enough to penetrate their inch-thick hides. So Dr. Goetz spiked rifle bullets with curare mixed with powdered sugar, and shot them into a giraffe's hindquarters. In 45 minutes the muscles were paralyzed. Then Dr. Goetz and his safari mates hobbled the giraffe's legs, put a blindfold over its eyes, and erected around...
...Catheter. With his giraffe securely caged, Dr. Goetz listened to its 25-lb. heart and located the carotid artery, which runs up the neck. He made an incision in the hide, opened the artery and applied a specially built manometer (blood-pressure-measuring instrument) with a catheter 12 ft. long. On its tip was a bit of radioactive cobalt, so its progress could be followed with a Geiger counter as it moved up the artery...
...Goetz believes that "we have only touched the fringes" of the giraffe problem. Next time he goes on safari, he will be equipped with better apparatus. When giraffes are fully understood, he hopes, something constructive can be done for human jet-plane pilots, who suffer from the changes of blood pressure that giraffes avoid...