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...despair, Monge turned to historical records, where he found a rich deposit of high-altitude lore. The Incas, who ruled Peru before the Spanish Conquest, were altitude-wise. When they colonized newly conquered territory, they always sent immigrants accustomed to its altitude. When they warred against coastal peoples, they maintained two highland armies. Each campaigned in the lowlands for only two months, was relieved, and returned to the high sierra to breathe its thin air and recuperate...
...licked the Machine, it literally blew up in his face. Novelist Loughlin's whale is still at large when his story ends, but readers will find stretches of remarkably brisk writing as well as murky theorizing, and large chunks of knowing merchant-marine chatter and engine-room lore...
...written a book to prove his point, is German-born Dr. Siegfried Kracauer, who apparently knows a good bit about both psychology and German movies. As sociology, Dr. Kracauer's From Caligari to Hitler (Princeton University Press; $5) depends pretty heavily on historical hindsight. As movie lore, it may fascinate cinemagoers who know little about German films except that they gave the world Marlene Dietrich, Peter Lorre, Emil Jannings and Director Fritz Lang...
...Crimson team is composed largely of players new to the intricate Harlow system, but a thorough digestion of all the lore the coach has dispensed, plus the natural emotional lift that visits any Harvard-Yale contest could very conceivably produce a Varsity victory...
...moved to New Mexico, established a cult devoted to nature, Indian lore and Indian dancing. In tribal dress, he lectured daily, worked on unfinished books, built an adobe castle as a museum shrine. When he died, he was planning a 10,000-mile lecture tour...