Word: traveling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...result. The diver is, says Dr. Lanphier, "immediately a candidate for one of the most serious of all diving accidents: air embolism." Apart from the danger of a lung bursting, the abnormal pressure can force air bubbles through the pulmonary veins and into the heart. The bubbles usually travel to the brain, causing convulsions and unconsciousness, and unless the victim is treated promptly by recompression, he is almost certain to die. The greatest danger of air embolism is in emergency ascents-perhaps after the scuba has gone out of kilter at great depth. Dr. Lanphier notes: "Only a well-instructed...
...friends change from uncaged animals to human beings with purpose and pride. With two girls who were her fellow prisoners and a young Dutch seaman, she starts out on the long journey to her home in The Netherlands. The book becomes a picaresque adventure as the quartet travel by foot, horse cart, boat and truck. Along the way are Germans, sullen or penitent or self-pitying; Russians, busy "liberating'' wristwatches, bicycles and women; and a boisterous medley of all the races of Europe who had been penned into camps by the Nazis and are now moving deliriously toward...
...White House performance is still tentative. The band will travel down to Washington on May 3 for the annual meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs. Alan S. Novins '59, assistant band manager, said there was a strong possibility of a concert on the White House lawn and a parade down Pennsylvania Avenue...
...clad in their native costume (i.e., working clothes), could hit Generous John Foster for a small loan? If Saud can put his hand out, how about the plight of the small businessman? What with new taxes on trucks, new taxes on having over four employees, old taxes on telephones, travel, entertainment-just plain taxes ad nauseam. LOUISE BUCK ROBSHAM West Yarmouth, Mass...
...their passports. Said Worthy, back in the U.S. after 41 days in Red China: "I want to embarrass the hell out of the State Department." The American Newspaper Publishers Association formally entered into the issue by sending to the President and the Congress a weighty resolution protesting curbs on "travel in any country with which...