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...allotted $107,000 to researchers headed by Dr. Harry Heller in Tel Aviv, where familial Mediterranean fever is rife. In the U.S.. where there is no comparable concentration of patients, such research would cost at least three or four times as much. Half a world away, Peruvian Indians have lived for centuries on low oxygen concentrations in the high Andes. To learn more about what this has done to their hearts and lungs, and what happens when they go down to the low level at Lima, PHS is backing research by Physiologist Alberto Hurtado. U.S. spacemen are looking anxiously...
...Peruvian Indians, he explained, will sometimes try to pass for mestizos (persons of mixed blood) by moving to the cities and pretending not to understand their native language, Quechua. Such extreme behavior, Patch implied, is not necessary in Bolivia...
...offer these few comments based on several dozen experiences (with LSD-25, mescaline, psilocybin, peyote and banisteriopsis caapi) spaced out over the last decade. Circumstances of ingestion varied from solitary trial to controlled academic setting at Stanford U. and Harvard to watchful supervision by native curanderos in the Peruvian Amazon...
...more than two years the Amateur Athletic Union and the National Collegiate Athletic Association have been engaged in a vicious jurisdictional battle over who is the proper judge of amateur status. The conflict has achieved nothing and has produced several ridiculous situations. This summer the AAU told a touring Peruvian basketball team that it might be ineligible for the Olympics if it played NCAA college teams in the U.S. whose players were not registered...
...times. But the grand days of U.S. amateur tennis supremacy, like those of Ivy League football, are long gone. Since 1950, Australia's strong-armed youngsters have ruled the courts; the U.S. has won only twice, the last time in 1958-and then with a Peruvian, Alex Olmedo, playing as a member of the U.S. team. In 1960 and 1961, the U.S. could not even make the finals, bowing out both times to Italy in interzone competition. Last week the U.S. 1962 Davis Cup team ran true to form: it lost to Mexico in the American zone preliminaries...