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...from the outside world with no way of knowing what is happening, crowd him in cramped quarters with a large group, ration his food and leave him completely to his own devices. What happens? Since many civilians and military men would face such conditions in group shelters in an atomic war, the U.S. Navy decided to try them out on 96 young (average age: 18) recruits, herded them into a 25-ft. by 48-ft. unheated shelter sunk 5 ft. beneath the grounds of the Naval Medical Center at Bethesda, Md. Engineers figured that the men might shiver with...
...uncomfortable 83°, speeded up the air blower to lower the temperature to 76°. Some of the men began to lose weight on a 1,500 calorie daily diet (two meals, consisting mainly of coffee, soup and peanut butter on wheat crackers), but when the ration was increased to 2,000 calories, many lost their appetite. The sailors talked mainly of girls and real food-and in the last few days mostly about food. Though only the two dozen men assigned to step through air locks into a tunnel to check radiation were permitted to shower (a decontamination precaution...
...last week Cyc Ferries was the sensation of the 1962 season. He had scored successive slalom victories at Austria's Kitzbühel and Italy's Cortina d'Ampezzo, was a solid favorite to capture the slalom again this week at the Fédération Internationale de Ski (F.I.S.) world championships in Chamonix, France...
...Madness. Salan and his men intend to keep Algeria French, and threaten a bloody uprising either before or after peace is concluded. To succeed in the long run, Salan must not only crush the powerful Moslem F.L.N. (Front de Lib�ration Nationale) but also bring down De Gaulle himself?tasks that seem far beyond his powers, particularly since his S.A.O. has not won any sizable support in Metropolitan France. But, even in failing, Salan can seriously endanger France by releasing mutiny in the embittered French army in Algeria, which would conceivably spread to barracks in Metropolitan France and trigger civil...
...Reports (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "The Fat American," a look at the causes and cures of overweight. Among experts interviewed: Dr. Paul Dudley White and Ancel Keys, physiologist and co-inventor of wartime K ration...