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...lightest weight class Bob Ecob (118) has found himself not big enough; he wrestled 103 in high school. At 126 Dave Kries "has had a frustrating year-he outwrestled most of his opponents, but he makes too many costly mistakes," Fehrs said...
Captain Clive Livingston will row at the seven position, and although he is the lightest man in a boat averaging 194 pounds, he more than makes up for it with his strength and technique...
...atmosphere is as much as 50 times thinner than the earth's. It seemed almost certain that a relatively weak Martian gravity had allowed most of the planet's primitive atmosphere to leak off into space. There appeared to be practically no possibility that any of the lightest element, hydrogen, or its compounds, had remained long enough to play their essential role in the early evolution of life. Now it appears that such pessimism may have been unfounded. The newest studies of the Martian atmosphere indicate that it abounds in hydrogen compounds, some of which are similar...
Sure enough, it squeaks through, and as the heart once more explodes into action the voyagers are hurled into even more photogenic adventures. To replenish their air supply, they snorkel through the gauzy wall of a capillary into a shocking-pink lung where the lightest breath hurls the homunculi about like twigs in a tornado. A bit later, the "foreign body" of Actress Welch is attacked with understandable enthusiasm by antibodies that look like jellyfish made of household cement...
Gloomy Conviction. Twain said that every man, like the moon, has his dark side. Even the lightest of his books is pervaded with that gloomy conviction. He disapproved of his century, his ambitions and himself. In 1866, when he was 31 and a relatively obscure journalist in San Francisco, he put a pistol to his head but could not pull the trigger. "Many times I have been sorry I did not succeed," he said, "but I was never ashamed of having tried...