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With a few minor (still unexplained) exceptions, all the statistical findings are directly opposite to what would be assumed on the basis of "superficial thinking or snap judgment," said Dartmouth College's Physiologist Henry A. Schroeder. In fact, when he began his study, he expected to find that hard water went with hard arteries. He took off from a 1950-51 U.S. Geological Survey study of water supplies for 1,315 cities, covering 90% of the urban and 58% of the total population. The survey assigned a "hardness index" to water, found the national average was 97. Dr. Schroeder...
...Manhattan last week, 17 Russians toured Chinatown and peered at Easter gowns in Fifth Avenue shopwindows. As cherry blossoms bloomed in Washington, 20 Japanese climbed out of their touring bus to snap pictures. Along Chicago's State Street wandered 72 curious Finnish businessmen. (Their hotel flew Finnish flags, provided Finnish maids for room service.) The Russians, the Japanese and the Finns are part of a new foreign invasion. They may not be seeing America first, but they are seeing it at last...
Astonished Teachers. More than ever, Wayne's students are after an education, not prestige or parties (only 5% belong to fraternities and sororities). They pack talks by such visitors as Dame Edith Sitwell and Poet Karl Shapiro, snap up tickets for the touring New York Metropolitan Opera, jam campus productions of Shakespeare and Chekhov. The athletic department (budget: $55,000) is overwhelmed if a football game draws 1,500 spectators. "They seem to think culture is part of their education, and not just something they should do," says one faculty member. "They're paying their way through college...
...last week when came the blood-curdling aa-oo-uuggghha! of the klaxon that pierces ears and reverberates in stomachs. Bulli and his men exploded from the molehole and raced for their plane. Copilot Richard Franz, 40, scampered up the forward ladder, and started to snap switches. Pilot Bulli clambered after him, swung his leg over the throttle quadrant, taking care not to upset switches or move dials...
...tower of golden glow at the end of its cable car, 4,000 feet above the city on Mount Avila. Inside the red-plush walls of La Belle Epoque restaurant, the oil lawyers and the air-conditioner distributors hoist $2.40 martinis and down $20 dinners. Visiting businessmen snap on black ties and pad down the corridors of the jammed Hotel Tamanaco, bound for nightclubs where sleek performers dance the traditional, twirling, fast-stepping joropo to the sound of harps twanging like guitars...