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Mars Chamber. Last week Dr. Strughold reported at Flagstaff that this experiment has been performed successfully by Dr. Roland B. Mitchell and Lieut. John A. Kooistra Jr. of the Air Force School of Aviation Medicine. They collected soil samples from the high slopes of Mt. McKinley, the Painted Desert and the Grand Canyon, where the climate in some respects is almost as tough as on Mars. They put the samples in jars and replaced the oxygen-rich earthly air with dry nitrogen. They lowered the moisture content to below 1% and reduced the pressure to 1.2 Ibs. per square inch...
Thomas H. Flint '58 of Winthrop House and Concord, Mass., was found dead at the top of New Hampshire's rocky Mt. Madison yesterday by two companions from whom he had become separated on a mountain climbing expedition. The survivors were Burt M. Perlmutter '58 and Edward Snow, a student at Emerson College...
Running north and south from the Red Sea to Mozambique is one vast fissure, the Great Rift Valley. Along one side the molten center of the earth itself spewed upward to form the great volcanic peaks of Kilimanjaro (elevation: 19,565 ft.), Mt. Kenya and the other volcanoes of the east. In its deepest clefts lie Africa's great lakes: Nyasa, Tanganyika and Lake Albert, with Lake Victoria, second in size only to North America's Lake Superior, on the high plateau near by. On either side of the great central rift, Middle Africa's land stretches...
...homes measured, however, are not all Harvard property. A woman whose property is near Mt. Auburn and DeWolfe Sts., site of the proposed eighth House, disclosed that she had not sold...
University officials have stated, nevertheless, that Harvard has enough land to erect a dormitory on the DeWolfe-Mt. Auburn block, and that the University will build around private property. No construction on Copperthwaite St. is planned this year...