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...toughest environments on earth is the high, thin-aired Andes. Lowland visitors puff & pant after trying to walk a few blocks in Oroya, Peru (12,000 feet) or La Paz, Bolivia (12,400 feet). Some get soroche (mountain sickness) so badly that they lose consciousness. Many lowlanders never get adjusted, and have to move back "down the hill...
Woodward has already squirted thin liquid streams of the molecules into warm air, in long siken threads. And a transparent plastic film eight ten thousandths of an inch thick has been made from the new material, by pouring solutions of the analog on a frozen surface...
...Rapids. As lampreys multiply, other fish grow proportionately scarce. First victims are the lake trout, whose small, thin scales cannot resist the lamprey's kiss. In Lake Huron, where lampreys do the most damage, the trout catch last year fell to 41,000 Ibs. (It was 1,750,000 Ibs. in 1939.) Many trout caught showed lamprey scars. When trout get scarce, the lampreys go after rough-scaled perch or even armored sturgeon...
...jockeys who have built their self-styled "spindustry" out of thin air mildly resent the big-names brigade, but have few financial beefs. Los Angeles' Al Jarvis (KLAC), the favorite in Southern California, takes in $190,000; Arthur Godfrey (Manhattan's WCBS and Washington's WTOP) makes $150,000. Ray Perkins (Denver's KFEL), top jockey in the Rocky Mountain region, isn't bragging about what he makes, but he likes Colorado. Jockey Jack Eigen has the newest gimmick: a wee-hours disc show in the lounge of Manhattan's glossy Copacabana nightclub...
...four days before the opening of Prague's International Music Festival, music-loving Czechs got an impressive answer to a question they had been asking for a year: Whom will the Russians send? The answer came in a red-starred C-47 direct from Moscow: Russia had sent thin, 40-year-old Dmitri Shostakovich, one of the world's five greatest living composers...