Word: climbers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Finishing fast in the stretch, Rex Ellsworth's brown colt, Terrang, half-brother to 1955 Kentucky Derby Winner Swaps, caught Llangollen Farm's Social Climber, won the $158,800 Santa Anita Derby by more than a length, and probably earned a chance to carry Ellsworth's colors in this year's Kentucky Derby...
Before Cynthia is through with Tom, he realizes that she is a literary climber who plans to use the prone bodies of her name-brand intellectual lovers as social steppingstones. By that time, Vera has joined the flophouse choir of ministering angels, and Tom, in an uncharacteristically humble mood, is ready to see the light of salvation. He sees it in a piece of transcendent silliness and highly dubious analogizing by a nun who tells Tom that his fellow poet's drunkenness, homosexuality and suicide were simply signs of his perfervid search for God, roughly comparable to the quest...
LIFE INSURANCE SALES are setting new records in 1955, says the Institute of Life Insurance. First-half sales were 25% ahead of 1954 (six-month total: $23.4 billion) and insurance men predict the same high rate of gain for the rest of the year. Fastest climber: group insurance, up 85% during the first half...
...Stair Climber. A two-wheeled, power-driven hand truck has been developed by the Valley Craft Products Inc., Lake City, Minn. to take heavy loads up or down stairs or ramps. A special ratchet mechanism allows the "Stair Cart" to climb stairs, is powerful enough to lift a 200-lb. load straight up a 4-ft. wall. Price: about...
...Death. A search party clawed and hacked its way up the steepest side of Popo, found the injured youth and girl in the lean-to where the young climber had left them; they were carried back to safety. Following the course of the avalanche, the party came to a deep crevasse and spotted in it with searchlights a climber's torn coat. Near by, the rescuers found the first body, that of a college football star, Humberto Areizaga. As they dug deeper they were horrified to hear muffled voices beneath them. Leonor Colin, a 21-year-old student...