Word: karst
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Master Sergeant Sam Karst, 34, from Greenville, S.C. kept going up. As the altimeter needle circled past the 50,000-ft mark, his eyes began to glaze, and the veins in his neck stood out like rawhide thongs. After 1½ minutes at an empyrean 55,000 ft. (equivalent to as much as 7½ miles above Evans' peak), Karst had had enough. Said he: "I could have stayed up longer, but I knew I was hypoxied,* so I signaled down...
...Gunther and David S. Adams, both of Brooklyn; Case Editors: Martin F. Richman, of White Plains, New York, and Aram J. Kevorkian, of Philadelphia; Developments Editor, William B. Matterson, of Mount Vernon, New York; Articles Editor, Wayne G. Barnett '50, of Las Vegas, Nevada; Book Reviews Editor, Kenneth L. Karst, of Los Angeles; Director of Legal Research, Charles F. Hawkins, of Bronxville, New York...