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...without getting the bends, and they remained conscious for an average of 30 minutes at 30,000 ft. Drs. Balke and Velasquez took students from sea-level Lima to Morococha, found that after a few weeks they could work as hard as the oldtimers. But the highland natives still had one advantage: their lungs worked only half as hard as the newcomers' because they were twice as efficient in extracting oxygen from the rarefied...
...Hampton, Va. 79 Kickham, John '61 T 6.4 201 Westbury, N. Y. 80 Stacke, James '61 E 6.1 193 Evanston, Ill. 81 Ernst, Frederick '60 E 6.3 195 Ridgefield, Conn. 82 Hutcherson, John '61 E 6.2 195 University, Miss. 83 Riddle, Pete '60 E 6.5 198 Highland Pk., Ill. 85 Connors, James '59 E 6.2 197 Cheshire, Conn. 87 Lundstedt, George '61 E 6.0 193 Rydal, Pa. 88 Rogers, John '61 E 6.1 205 Syracuse, N. Y. 89 Murach, Michael '61 E 6.2 195 Grafton, Wisc...
Underground Work. The denominational churches, including Presbyterians, Methodists and Episcopalians, include far more anti-segregation partisans. Even so, men like Dr. William M. Elliott of the Highland Park Presbyterian Church of Dallas, who has frequently denounced segregation as morally indefensible, and Episcopal Minister Duncan Gray Jr. of St. Peter's Church at Oxford, Miss., who has spoken sturdily for racial tolerance, stand out as exceptions to the rule. Most of the pro-integration work of the Southern clergy of whatever denomination is so quiet as to be almost clandestine...
After a stretch in the navy and in Parliament (he cozened the Scottish voters by dancing Highland reels and, on one occasion, importing 15 beautiful maidens of the Clan Macleod for a party), truculent Lord George Gordon became president of the Protestant Association. Gordon was a furious enemy of the Catholic Relief Act, passed in 1778 to ease the lot of English Catholics. One June day in 1780 the association met in St. George's Fields, 50,000 strong. After a speech by Gordon, they marched eight abreast to Parliament to demand repeal of the Relief...
...that he was neither a crusader nor a critic, spent three days in Summerton, S.C. convincing the head of the Citizens' Council that he just wanted to get the Council's side of the story. Back in his nine-room Victorian house in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park, Martin took another four months to write his series. He ground no personal ax, pleaded no man's cause, contented himself with a dispassionate report entitled: The Deep South Says "Never...