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...longer life may be higher gravity-at least for rats. That is the "very tentative suggestion" of experiments performed by NASA Physiologist Jiro Oyama, who has been raising mice and rats under artificial gravities created by centrifuges at Ames Research Center in California. Whirling on an 8½-ft. centrifuge, two female rats survived for 47 months, a year longer than their normal three-year life span...
Delegates, besides Dolin, are Steven V. Roberts '64, Hartej S. Sandhu '63, and John R. Taylor '65. Alternates will be Danny J. Boggs '65, David I. Oyama '64, Marc J. Roberts '64, and Thomas A. Timberg...
...Thursday David J. Oyama '64, one of the original candidates, protested the Committee's action as not in accord with the new Council's Constitution. The Committee withdrew Schaffer from nomination but, saying that House members had not had sufficient time to consider the election, postponed it a week and reopened nominations...
...freshman class has elected David I. Oyama '64, of Wigglesworth Hall and Chicago; Marc J. Roberts '64, of Grays Hall and Bayonno, N.J.; Joseph M. Russin '64, of Wigglesworth Hall and Laramie, Wyo.; and John Thorndike '64, of Mower Hall and Exeter, N.H. to serve on the Student Council during the Fall term next year...
...good luck, U.S. Navy radiomen had picked up a message about Oyama's plight. The Navy's headquarters at Yokosuka ordered the nearest submarine rescue ship, the Coucal, to Oyama's aid. The Coucal clipped four hours off her estimated time on a flank-speed, 500-mile run to Nagasaki. It took the sorely tried Oyama aboard, and doctors went with him into the sub's decompression chamber. He spent 38 hours there and breathed a mixture of helium and oxygen to help flush out the nitrogen. At the end, Oyama could stand shakily...