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...visitors are warned to get used to the thin air before taking a cocktail or attempting anything so athletic as trotting upstairs. At the airport, 1,400 ft. above the city, no jets come in; Panagra's prop pilots sometimes take a whiff of oxygen during stopovers. Yet 4,000,000 people inhabit Bolivia; 75% are on the altiplano (high plain), a vast, barren Andean plateau averaging 12,000 ft. in altitude. Of the 75%, a few tin miners produce the nation's major export; the rest, mostly Quechua and Aymara Indians who cannot even speak Spanish, spend...
Flying over the Atlantic, Jackie was indeed nearly overcome, had to whiff oxygen to relieve her fatigue. Four first-class seats were arranged to provide a berth so that the First Lady could rest. In Greece Jackie took it easy, her privacy assured by 80 Greek policemen and coast guardsmen who patrolled the land and water approaches to the villa of wealthy Greek Shipper Markos No-mikos overlooking the Saronic Gulf near Athens. During her 1961 visit, Jackie had used the same villa...
...Because "technicians generally were not aware of the strict cleanliness required," oxygen and water for the astronauts at times were contaminated...
...deathwatch went on while the M.G.H. surgeons did everything possible to pull Callahan through; they even dropped the temperature of his entire body to decrease his brain's need for oxygen. But he showed no sign of regaining consciousness. On Monday, when all hope had faded, Dr. Russell tackled his most difficult task. He told the wom an who was about to be widowed what his colleagues wanted. Ermalinda Callahan replied without hesitation: "Go ahead if it will help someone else...
...which first showed Dr. James A. Berbos that Mrs. Fischer was bearing a fivesome was taken with high-speed film developed since World War II-safer for both mother and babies. The light anesthesia used during delivery was better controlled and adjusted. Doctors now know that the right oxygen concentration for preemies is around 40%. And the five little Fischers were promptly placed in five Isolettes, incubators developed in 1948 to give automatic and precise control of temperature, humidity and oxygen strength. There they will stay for a while before graduating to the open air-and, in about two months...