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Robert Ettinger, a physics teacher at Michigan's Highland Park Junior College, is the main proponent of this modern grasp at immortality. Since 1947, he has been interested in cryogenics, the science of freezing substances at extreme temperatures. For precedents, he points out that technicians have already succeeded in reanimating lower forms of animal life. In his book The Prospects of Immortality, Ettinger proposes that humans take advantage of this example by having their bodies frozen instead of buried or cremated...
...Rumanian wife, Betty Joan Perske, as she was then named, was an only child. The parents soon divorced and Betty, who has not seen her father since she was eight, was reared by her mother. She attended New York public schools, a Tarrytown, N.Y., boarding school called Highland Manor, and graduated from New York City's Julia Richman High School. She began modeling when she was twelve, "to make a little dough," and had graced the cover of Harper's Bazaar by the time she went to Hollywood at 18. In her very first film, To Have...
...traditional view, the dark areas of Mars are considered lowlands, with bright sectors a mere mile or so higher. But Carl E. Sagan, assistant professor of Astronomy, and James B. Pollack of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, have reversed the roles of dark and light areas. And the highland, they say, are far more than a mile above "sea" level...
Within five hours the battle was over, Lieut. Thung was a cowed and loquacious prisoner, and the ground was littered with the bodies of North Vietnamese dead. That brought to nearly 400 the number of enemy destroyed in Nathan Hale's continuing sweep of the coastal highland area, which has long been the sanctuary of the Viet Cong but is now an increasingly perilous area for an estimated 2,500 North Vietnamese troops...
...board of directors of the Harvard Student Agencies last week elected Frederic J. Gruber '67 of Dunster House and Highland Park, Illinois, president of HSA for the year 1966-67. Other officers elected were Robert R. Weller '68, of Winthrop House and Youngstown, Ohio, treasurer; and Richard T. Howe '88, of Greenough Hall and Melrose, clerk...