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...June 4, Dr. Kleitman and Graduate Student Bruce Richardson entered Kentucky's Mammoth Cave, took up residence in a snug cavern 119 feet underground where for them day and night on the surface had no meaning. There they lived a 28-hour cycle, sleeping nine hours each 28-hour "day." There were only six of their long days in a calendar week. They had a regular routine of eating, sleeping, reading, writing, walking...
After 32 calendar days underground, the two scientists emerged last week. Results: Richardson adapted himself well to the long day, sleeping soundly at the prescribed periods and stretching his temperature cycle to one of 28 hours. Kleitman had much difficulty, his periods of wakefulness and sleepiness and his temperature cycle clinging to the 24-hour schedule. This indicated that ability to break away from the 24-hour rhythm, while not impossible, varies with different individuals. Perhaps age is a factor, since Kleitman is 43 and Richardson only...
...University he became a pupil of Masaryk, drank in his ideas for a Czech state. Later, as professor of sociology, he continued his master's teachings through a secret nationalist society. Soon after the outbreak of the War, his underground activities were discovered, and he fled to join Masaryk in Switzerland. There pupil and master drafted their sales-talks to the Allies...
...William ZebuIon Foster and "Big Bill" Haywood had splintered away from the Debs Socialists, had formed "Communist" parties. Two years afterward, with Browder close at hand, they fused their factions into the Communist Party of the U. S. A., affiliated with the Third International, plunged into the underground era of Communism. Then to be known as a Red was to be hunted, beaten, jailed; to be a Red was to belong to a party of revolution, completely futile because of its own factional revolutions. Assigned to China by the Red International of Labor Unions in 1927, Comrade Browder returned...
...almost 30 years pampered U. S. Senators have ridden 750 feet underground from the Senate office buildings to the Capitol, first in two rickety storage-battery cars, since 1913 by two monorail electric trolleys. All this time Representatives, who outnumber Senators 435 to 96 and are therefore a traffic problem, have had to walk through their tunnel from the old House offices to the Capitol. Last week, as Representatives were looking feebler than usual after rejecting Reorganization, they learned that Assistant Capitol Architect Horace D. Rouzer had told a House Appropriations subcommittee that Representatives might rest their legs as well...