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Then three of us sat down in a sacred park near by on the edge of a cement fence built around a pedestaled, steel-shelled Buddha which had suffered considerably from shell fragments-hits in the chest and behind the right ear. We opened a pack of K rations for breakfast...
...advocates believe that aluminum dust may banish shortness of breath, chest constriction, the threat of tuberculosis. (Said one Canadian miner: "Aluminum takes the leather out of your lungs.") They also think that aluminum breathed after each day's mining or dusted into mines may prevent silicosis altogether. But the day of its general adoption is still a long way off. As research on the subject is not yet complete, Mclntyre Research, Ltd. (the original discoverers) has patented its use of the dust, will apply the royalties to further study...
Into the Swamp. At 7:30 we plunged into the chest-deep swamp, holding our guns overhead and wading. Sometimes you'd step into a pothole up to your neck. When machine-gun bullets started pinging around us the sweat began to trickle. Water filled our pockets and every ounce became a pound. A few men were killed in that crossing, but most of us got across to the railway. By then our last ounce of energy seemed gone. But we went on two miles, panting and puffing up the track to dry land. Snipers were still taking a wham...
Hoffman has also spread his gospel through printed matter (The Big Chest Book; How to Be Strong, Healthy and Happy; Big Arms, etc.). His chestiest publishing venture is the monthly Strength and Health, which claims a circulation of 110,000 and more than a million readers in all parts of the world. The magazine loses about $2,000 a month, a misfortune which Hoffman ascribes to the fact that it spurns all cigaret, liquor and breakfast-food advertising...
...inaudible to human ears, even with a stethoscope. A delicate device to record these sounds on photographic film has been developed at Du Font's Haskell Laboratories by Dr. John Henry Foulger and Physicist Paul E. Smith Jr. The device consists of a microphone strapped to the chest, and a foot-long box with dials like a table radio...