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...were up early, in time for orange juice and toast at the motel. A bust trip to Boston and some time killed at each end and it was 10:30 and time for the training meal at the V-Club...
...Whitehall, past Nelson's monument in Trafalgar Square, by the National Gallery, where the flag hung at half-mast, and into the Strand moved the gun carriage, which had borne the regal corpses of Queen Victoria, Edward VII, George V and George VI. Along the way the pavements were thronged with silent watchers, and the white topees of Royal Marines dotted the route like snowdrops...
...Stretch. Strictly speaking, the University of Arkansas' Dr. Richard V. Ebert told a meeting of the New York Heart Association, emphysema is a more or less permanent inflation of the lungs resulting from the loss of elasticity in their deepest recesses. There the tiny alveoli, or gas-exchange cells, give up carbon dioxide and take in oxygen. Clustered around small arteries, they are so numerous that they create a huge area for gas exchange-about 85 sq. yds. in the average adult...
Silent as a Ghost. The G.M. sleds resemble the Podars about as much as a Corvette does a Corvair. The innovations include shock absorbers and sports-car-type "direct" steering (v. the Podar's rope-controlled runners). In trial runs at Lake Placid, N.Y., last month, a two-man G.M. sled beat the best time of a heavier, four-man Podar -and the four-man G.M. was faster yet. At St. Moritz last week, astonished European bobbers nicknamed the two man sled "the Ghost" because its rubber-seated runners merely whispered over the ice-while the Podars clattered...
While the New York Stock Exchange continues to show gains, a much broader but less-known market is rising even faster. Last week the National Quotation Board's index of over-the-counter stocks closed at a record 192.37, up 8% for the year so far, v. a 3½% rise for the Dow-Jones. Last year the OTC index jumped 23%; the Dow-Jones advanced...