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Even before the flag-raising was finished, a U.S. boxer collapsed-starved for oxygen in the high (7,800 ft.), thin air-and had to be carried off. Next day, when some 2,000 competitors from 22 American republics began the more strenuous exertions of the off-year Olympics, athletes and spectators began to drop in droves...
Strangely surprised by the extent of the altitude poisoning, coaches and trainers stood about in helpless confusion while distance runners ran out of gas, staggered into the infield talking to themselves, their eyes rolling above contorted faces. Eventually, a safe supply of oxygen bottles appeared, and U.S. officials began to mutter that next time their team ought to be at the games site early enough to get accustomed to the altitude. (Next time, 1959, the games will probably be in Cleveland. Altitude...
...then, Hubbs has rummaged through many ancient heaps of kitchen midden and found many shells of creatures that do not live there any more. Some of them he sent to the University of Chicago to be analyzed in two ways: for carbon 14 to tell their age, and for oxygen 18 to tell the temperature of the water in which they were formed...
...your Feb. 28 review of the movie Underwater!, your reviewer mentions Jane Russell not being at her best "at ten fathoms with a tank of oxygen on her back and her teeth clamped on an Aqua-Lung." It is not likely that she would be. Compressed air, not oxygen, is used with an Aqua-Lung, and oxygen breathed at depths of more than about 35 ft. becomes highly toxic to the human body, resulting in convulsions, blackout, and eventully death...
...Francisco, the Steinhart Aquarium was planning to package an octopus in an oxygen tent for a flight to Manhattan. The intended purpose: a four-minute appearance on NBC's Home TV show...