Athletic games are often so close that they are decided in the last few seconds of play.
Wanting to rid Russia of the influence of Rasputin, the monk who had a wicked influence on the czar and the czarina, a group of courtiers administered a dose of cyanide to him. When the hydrocloric acid of the normal stomach comes in contact with cyanide, a gas is given off that goes into the blood stream causing death from asphyxia in two or three minutes. Rasputin did not die. Higher education in the United States is feeling the effects of the public's conviction that education throughout life is a sound principle. In 1976, students over 22 years of age constituted nearly fifty percent of the total college enrollment as compared with thirty-nine percent in 1970.