Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...elevation, Morococha has an average atmospheric pressure (446 mm. of mercury) slightly more than half that at sea level. But its barrel-chested natives, after generations of exposure to perpetual oxygen shortage, have a lung structure and blood pattern especially adapted to extract full value from the last available whiff of oxygen (TIME, Jan. 20). They literally and habitually work like navvies with nary a huff or puff, even go to 16,000 ft. to "relax" by playing a murderously fast game of soccer...
...Questions. Key questions for the Air Force researchers were: 1) Would this adaptation help a spaceman to survive if he accidentally lost his oxygen supply, and 2) can a lowly sea-level type achieve the High Andean's resistance to oxygen deprivation-but in a matter of weeks instead of centuries? Helping Dr. Clark get the answers were Drs. Alberto Hurtado and Tulio Velasquez of Lima's Institute of Andean Biology...
...nearly six weeks of inching up to its 14,260-ft. peak, airmen could exercise in an altitude chamber simulating 38,000 ft. 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...
...economy last week showed a seasonal briskness that put new pep into the statistics. Private housing starts hit the highest level of any month since September 1955 with a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,260,000. The nation's industrial output edged up another point to 138% of the 1947-49 average, 9% above the recession low. With unemployment still dropping between September and October, consumers stepped up their buying in the nation's department stores by 2% over a year ago. And steel production, reported the American Iron and Steel Institute, rose to the highest level...
...point early in the second quarter, play descended to the grammar-school level, with both teams fumbling the ball around as if it were a live coal. The Crimson had made no first downs (and almost no yardage) in its first five offensive sorties, and general consternation was mounting in the Harvard stands, when suddenly Ravenel shifted his attack into high gear...