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Indian doctors are studying an 83-year-old holy man who claims to have spent the last seven decades without food and water. Military doctors hope the experiments on Prahlad Jani can help soldiers develop their survival strategies.The long-haired and bearded yogi is under 24-hour observation by a team of 30 specialists during three weeks of tests at a hospital in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad.Two cameras have been set up in his room, while a mobile camera films him when he goes outside, guaranteeing round-the-clock observation.His body will be scanned and his brain and heart activity measured with electrodes."The observation...

AUSTRIA CAPITULATES TO GERMANY; PRO-NAZIS GET KEY POSTS IN CABINET; BERLIN HAILS UNITY OF TWO NATIONS British Minimize Vienna Surrender; Relieved That Clash Was Avoided Smoother Path Seen for ‘Deal’ With Germany If Hitler Is Reasonable – Public Realizes Importance Despite Official Complacence By FERDINAND KUHN Jr.Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES. LONDON, Feb. 15 – Faced with what it knows to be the surrender of Austria to the might of Nazi Germany, the British Government publicly stuck its head deep into the sand today. “Oh, it is nothing very serious,” was the official attitude, although all London realized that...