Word: velasquezes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Duchess of Windsor without those wrinkles that are the map of earned character. But Truman Capote he sees devastatingly as a lounging, feline figure, with a prim mouth and enormous cold spectacles. Elsa Maxwell becomes, in a spectacularly strong and concise portrait, a court dwarf out of Velasquez. Says Bouché: "A court jester, but also a desperately serious woman who considers herself a serious critic of society...
...near his home, served with aviation engineers in the China-Burma-India theater during the war (rode a truck on the Burma Road), turned to commercial art and book-jacket illustration after the war. An unashamed copyist, who perfected his techniques by long hours of studying the masterpieces of Velasquez, Rembrandt and Rubens in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, he did his first cover for TIME in April 1957 (Morocco's King Mohammed...
...spaceman to survive if he accidentally lost his oxygen supply, and 2) can a lowly sea-level type achieve the High Andean's resistance to oxygen deprivation-but in a matter of weeks instead of centuries? Helping Dr. Clark get the answers were Drs. Alberto Hurtado and Tulio Velasquez of Lima's Institute of Andean Biology...
Since Morococha is not high enough for his purpose Dr. Velasquez put local volunteers into an altitude chamber, exhausted the air until the pressure equaled that at 30,000 ft., then had them take off their oxygen masks. Whereas virtually all unacclimated lowlanders lose consciousness in less than three minutes under these conditions, half the Morocochans were able to take it indefinitely and thus made it possible for Dr. Velasquez to figure out average endurance. The break point came at 32,000 ft. in this experiment; only one volunteer wore down the researchers by failing to black out. The rest...
...Colo. (TIME, Aug. 25). After nearly six weeks of inching up to its 14,260-ft. peak, airmen could exercise in an altitude chamber simulating 38,000 ft. without getting the bends, and they remained conscious for an average of 30 minutes at 30,000 ft. Drs. Balke and Velasquez took students from sea-level Lima to Morococha, found that after a few weeks they could work as hard as the oldtimers. But the highland natives still had one advantage: their lungs worked only half as hard as the newcomers' because they were twice as efficient in extracting oxygen...