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...outlet off an extension cord in the hospital emergency room, stripped the insulation off the ends of the wires and plugged the other end into the ordinary house current. Wearing rubber gloves, he touched the wires to opposite sides of Fruehling's heart. Twice the shock failed to work. Dr. Riegel then wrapped each wire around the base of a hypodermic needle and plunged the needles into the heart muscle-where they made a sizzling sound. Under this heroic stimulus, Fruehling's heart resumed its natural beat. This week he will be able to go home...
...animals, insects and snakes. Overhead the pelicans circled by the hundreds, diving occasionally to scoop up a flopping fish. Scientists M. Lefevre and A. Bouchardeau hurried back to their base camp to report that for the first time since 1873 the waters were running in the Bahr el Ghazal, outlet of Central Africa's fabled Lake Chad...
...Caspian. It once constituted an inland trading route and a favorite hunting ground of pirates. But long before it was first sighted by Europeans in 1823, the lake began receding before the southward encroachment of the Sahara Desert. Scientists suspect that it was also draining away through an underground outlet. As Chad was transformed into a wilderness of swamplands and papyrus jungles, its water level dropped to a point where it no longer flowed out through the Bahr el Ghazal. Rice farmers along the river banks and the lake's once-fertile shores packed up and moved southward. With...
...years, its rise has not been accompanied by any increase in rainfall. The scientists' best guess: the underground reservoir of water into which the lake's waters have apparently been draining is now filled, and Chad will continue to expand until it finds a new subterranean outlet. By last week, the scientists noted happily, the waters of the Bahr el Ghazal were already approaching their historic banks and irrigating lands uncultivated for generations...
According to Derek T. Winans '60, chairman of a five-man committee directing the Forum, the organization will serve as an outlet for freshman opinion on world affairs and "will participate in worthwhile international charities," such as the Hungary collection...