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Indeed, his breakthroughs have led many to believe he has a mysterious physical edge over other mountaineers. Not so, says Oswald Oelz, a Swiss physician and one of Messner's former climbing partners, who conducted a series of tests on high-altitude climbers in a hypobaric chamber. Messner emerged with results similar to those of an above-average marathon runner. He and other mountaineers who had successfully penetrated the 8,000-m barrier proved to have what Oelz calls a "rather active respiratory center," meaning that as the air gets thinner, their rate of breathing involuntarily increases. "He's obviously...
...DIED. Oswald (Ossie) Bluege, 84, third baseman of catlike quickness for the Washington Senators (1922-39) who was widely regarded as one of the best glovemen ever to play the position; in Edina, Minn. His 49 years' employment with the Senators--the Minnesota Twins after 1961--included stints as coach (1940-42), manager (1943-47), farm director (1948-54), controller and secretary...
...flamboyant 78-year-old attorney is known for his role in a variety of sensational legal cases. He represented Jack Ruby in the Lee Harvey Oswald murder trial. More recently, he has represented clients seeking huge damages in the downing of a Korean Air Lines jet, the Las Vegas MGM Grand Hotel fire, and the Bhopal chemical disaster...
...Power worship," many critics suggest, was the particular Mitford sin, and the Guinnesses partially agree. Diana, the beauty of the family, with passionate eyes set in a curiously passive face, showed "a potential for extremism." Translation: she fell in love with British Fascist Leader Sir Oswald Mosley and the ideas he believed...
...callused hands of a seasoned laborer, Stammer remembered, but he was also a person of some refinement. He enjoyed having her play the piano for him, and he liked reading books on history and philosophy, metaphysics and chemistry. Among his favorites was The Decline of the West, written by Oswald Spengler. For the most part, Stammer reported, her guest remained quiet. "Sometimes," she recalled, "he went out of the house for six, seven hours at a time. I think he just went walking." The Stammers finally separated themselves from their increasingly unwanted guest in 1974. Moving to a small house...