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...British women's amateur golf championship at Gullane, Scotland. The Babe nearly always outdrove her opponents by 50 to 100 yards. On one nine, she came in two under men's par. Between rounds she entertained galleryites with trick shots and her impressions of the highland fling...
...turned to historical records, where he found a rich deposit of high-altitude lore. The Incas, who ruled Peru before the Spanish Conquest, were altitude-wise. When they colonized newly conquered territory, they always sent immigrants accustomed to its altitude. When they warred against coastal peoples, they maintained two highland armies. Each campaigned in the lowlands for only two months, was relieved, and returned to the high sierra to breathe its thin air and recuperate...
When the institute got help and money, it studied Andean Man in the flesh. The highland Indians, Dr. Monge found, get their resistance to altitude from definite physical differences. Their lungs are bigger than normal, with more blood vessels in them. Their blood is in greater volume and contains more oxygen per unit. Their hearts can do 12% more work than the hearts of sea-level men. Their nerve cells are less sensitive to anoxia (oxygen starvation...
...three premieres. The Minotaur was a well-conceived but not always well-executed marriage of classical myth, classical and modern dance (by John Taras), modern music (by Elliott Carter) and modern art (by Joan Junyer). In Zodiac, weak music and dance were overpowered by blinding costumes and sets. Highland Fling, in which sylphs run in & out of an interminable Scottish wedding to faintly Scottish and vaguely dissonant music, was an unhappy case of incompatibility...
Died. Sir Norman Mcleod Buchan, 84, 18th Earl of Caithness, head of the ancient Highland family that once controlled northern Scotland† and the Orkney Isles; in Castle Auchmacoy, Scotland...