Women Spend 2 Weeks Underground
(N Z P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) LACAVE (France), July 3. Seven French women are expected to climb from a cave into daylight on Monday morning after two weeks underground.
They appear to have lost almost all sense of time, according to doctors. The women are engaged in a 15-day isolation experiment in a 350-foot grotto, near Lacave, southern France. Doctors say the women, aged from 21 to 36, are in good health and spirits.
One of the main objects of the experiment is to find out how a group of women, who ■did not know each other and came from widely differing lives, would get on together. The official experiment ends
on Sunday, but the woinen will stay down for another 15 hours to get used to increased light conditions. Main tests when they surface will be on their eyes, to see how swiftly the retina can adjust to daylight and bow well it can distinguish between colours. The women have been making detailed notes on their life underground under doctors' instructions by telephone. From the first, the women were the best of friends.
On the second day, news came up that the two senior members of the team had been chosen to delegate washing-up and other chores.
There has never been any word of bickering or quarrels among them.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30794, 5 July 1965, Page 13
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