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...newest method goes straight back to the oldest. Among the growing number of researchers who contend that nothing beats wafting breath with the lungs is a group from Baltimore City Hospitals and the universities of Maryland and Buffalo. They measured the exact volume of air that each method forced into the lungs of 16 volunteers, all anesthetized and paralyzed with a shot of a compound resembling curare. Summarizing 27 such experiments in the current New England Journal of Medicine, the researchers found that neither trained nor untrained operators using either the Schafer or Nielsen methods under field conditions could move...
Television's newest rage consists of a jukebox full of rock V roll records, a studio full of dancing teenagers, and Dick Clark, a suave young (28) disk jockey full of money. For his go-minute American Bandstand, which is carried by 90 ABC stations each weekday (3 p.m., E.S.T.), Clark draws one of the biggest audiences in daytime TV, some 8,000,000 (half of them adults), 20,000 to 45,000 fan letters a week, and an income approaching $500,000 a year. Admits Clark: "It's all a little frightening...
...slept in Barbados, and Captain Bligh sailed to St. Vincent. Alexander Hamilton was born on Nevis, and the pirate Morgan was lieutenant governor of Jamaica. Lord Nelson served at Antigua. Now, shaking off the fascinations of the past, the scenic British islands are banding together in a federation, the newest nation-neighbor of the U.S. For the story and color photographs, see HEMISPHERE, First Election...
...newest satellite, Explorer III, was similar to Explorer I, fired Jan. 31, and identical to Explorer II, which miscarried and disappeared after its successful launching March 5. Explorer III, weighing 31 Ibs., carried a special tape recorder that would enable scientists to measure cosmic rays more efficiently (see SCIENCE). As it turned out. its orbit, coursing an ellipse from 110 miles at its perigee to 1,735 miles at apogee at a top speed of 18,850 m.p.h.. was less than Army scientists had hoped for-and as much as 700 miles inside the Navy's grapefruit-sized...
...Officials said tonight that Russia's newest diplomatic note shows the Kremlin wants to turn a summit conference into a propaganda circus' instead of seeking meaningful agreements...