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Died. Dr. Hein von Diringshofen, 67, German pioneer in aviation and space medicine, who in the early 1930s was the first to study the effects of high gravity forces and weightlessness on the human body, frequently used himself as a guinea pig in hell-diving Stukas and free-fall parachute jumps, in 1934 constructed the first experimental human centrifuge, predecessor of the ones now used in training astronauts, later served as the Luftwaffe's chief medical officer in World War II; of cancer; in Frankfurt, Germany...
Being a Christian will not mean knowing a set of right answers to certain difficult problems, he said. "A Christian should be a guinea pig, and the Church is the laboratory." This is a gruesome policy, Stendahl admitted, especially for the layman who has muddled his way through complexities all week and comes to church to hear some nice, simple principles. "But principles are never practicable," he said...
...conflict essentially their own, even though they may have been deeply committed to the principles at stake. They fought for Britain in the Boer War and the two World Wars, for the U.N. in Korea. Canadian soldiers have served in every U.N. peace-keeping mission except West New Guinea, and Canada is still a member of the ectoplasmic International Control Commission in Viet Nam. But despite its diplomatic aspirations, Canada carries little real weight in international affairs. It has never greatly antagonized anyone in the world-nor greatly influenced anyone, either...
Organized and Coordinated. To test his theories, the Dutch scientist traveled through the central Africa rain forest until, in northwest Guinea, he found a place where his "dehumanization" hypothesis could be demonstrated. There, in an area with many open plains, the chimpanzees had gradually emerged from the forest, safe from natives who obey the Mohammedan commandment not to eat apes and have no reason to hunt chimps...
Returning to Amsterdam, Kortlandt organized a three-man expedition to Guinea, equipped it with cameras and an experimental tool of his own design: a stuffed leopard animated by a windshield-wiper mechanism that moved its head and tail. Hiding in the bush, Kortlandt's crew waited until a group of about 30 chimps passed nearby and then pulled the mock leopard into view. "Hell broke loose," says Zoologist Jo Van Orshoven, a member of the expedition. "With enormous yelling and hooting they started to attack the leopard in an organized and coordinated...