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...country. In Butyrki, he met the first contingent of Russian soldiers and civilians who had been captured by the Germans during the war. These people were now being repatriated?straight into Stalin's prisons and camps. Nearly 2 million of the 5.7 million prisoners of war had died of hunger and mistreatment in the Nazi camps...
...interview following the announcement by Senators George McGovern (D-S.D.) and Charles Percy (R-Ill.) that Mayer will chair the national conference sponsored by the Senate Committee on Nutrition, he said that it will be "difficult to avoid future widespread malnutrition and hunger in the rest of the world...
...watch. Isadora, Bennet her husband, and Adrian Goodlove, a Laingian from England, get involved in an adulterous whirlwing in Vienna. Bennet--Freudian, careful, compulsively clean, straight, steadfast--represents Isadora's panic about being alone and about change. Adrian--Laingian, irresponsible, egotistical, clown, ass grabber--represents her hunger for the heady and exuberant in life. Isadora tries to choose between them, juggling security with Bennet against escape with Adrian, The National Book Award and the Transatlantic Ass Award. She sleeps with Bennet dreaming of Adrian and sleeps with Adrian needing Bennet. She doesn't want what she has, and when...
Even the Roman Catholic Church, long a bulwark of the government, has begun to show discontent. Only this month six priests who had been arrested for various political offenses finally agreed to end a 16-day hunger strike in the Zamora Prison after their bishops had intervened with Franco. Many younger priests and bishops are now more in sympathy with the workers than with the government. The censored press, which has generally downplayed the unrest, felt called upon to note the fact that the Guardia Civil had discovered eight dynamite cartridges and "a mass of subversive literature" at a convent...
Ekblom's method is based on a well-established physiological fact: muscles under stress need more oxygen than those that are not. Athletes' muscles become fatigued when they are starved for oxygen. To overcome this hunger, Ekblom first removed a total of 1,200 cc. (slightly more than a quart) of blood from each of four students in three separate bleedings four days apart, then kept the blood in cold storage. The bleedings temporarily reduced the subjects' red-cell count, decreasing their oxygen-carrying capacity and thus their endurance by about 30%. But their bodies soon replaced...