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When he came upon the Great Falls of the Missouri River in 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis found himself in the heart of the northwestern wilderness. On an island below the Falls, on a high cottonwood tree, he saw a lone eagle's nest. Lewis went on alone, toward the Sun River, and shot a buffalo. Then he saw a bear creeping toward him, ran to the river and jumped in. When he climbed out, he met an unknown brown- & -yellow animal ready to spring upon him. He shot at it. Then he was charged by three buffalo bulls...
Typical reactor was Pilot A, whose mission was to take a lone plane on a photographic-bombing mission over the best-protected part of a target. At the take-off and during the climb, the pilot's pulse was 96 a minute (high), his blood pressure 132 (a little high), respiration 18 (normal). An hour later, when "cruising was uneventful," pulse rate had dropped to 86 (still high), blood pressure to 122 (about normal). When the target was sighted the pulse immediately rose to 94, the blood pressure to 138, the respiration to 22 (high). Heavy sweating began...
...lone cold breeze of the week blew out of the annual meeting of the U.S. Golf Association, which found the idea of reviving the U.S. Open distinctly premature...
...clock that evening a man walked into a lonely, brightly lighted pumping station on the Salt River, two miles from the camp. He wore faded Army fatigue clothes, was drenched with the rain which was falling outside. As George Jackson, the lone man on duty, stared at him, he calmly announced that he was an escaped prisoner. Though he carried a 100-pound pack containing food, cigarets and other supplies, he politely asked for something to eat. He offered no resistance when Jackson reached for the telephone. At almost the same time two more Germans knocked at a farmhouse three...
...annual Yale-Harvard chess match held in New York December 23 for the Belden-Stevens trophy, resulted in a 2 to 2 tie. Lone victor was Raymond R. Schiff 47. Alan N. Alpern '48, and Marshall N. Rosenbluth of the V-12 tied, while Henry H. Nattens '47, lost...