Word: climbers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whether gulping fresh air as a tyro mountain climber or rapids shooter, staring down hostile students in South America or frenzied crowds at home, he had only a shrug for death. He made a point of declining police protection when it was offered?as it was last week in Los Angeles?and his unofficial bodyguard went unarmed. To the crowds whose raucous adulation drew him endlessly to the brink of physical peril, he seemed to offer a choice: Raise me up with your voices and votes, or trample me with your strength...
...Greentree owners have done themselves proud before: they once had a colt named Night Vision, who was the offspring of Eight Thirty and Knothole. But long acknowledged as the most adroit namesman in racing is Millionaire Sportsman Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, 55, whose past coups include Crashing Bore (by Social Climber, out of Stumbling Block), Age of Consent (by My Request-Novice) and Social Outcast (by Shut Out-Pansy). And when Vanderbilt in 1949 bred a stallion named Polynesian to a mare named Geisha, he came up with a name that will be remembered as long as horse races...
Like his predecessor, Long feels that a specific postwar period came to an end with the Kennedy Round. "Our task is to secure this achievement," he says, "like a mountain climber secures his foothold." It will be a difficult task, since U.S. legislators, prompted by shrinking markets for U.S. goods, are already considering a score of protectionist measures (TIME, April 12). Such measures would invite retaliation and the resulting dustup could undo years of bargaining almost overnight...
...much attention." Investigating other byways of sport, Broun reported on the Copacabana waiter who felt that "presiding over the organized frenzy" of the club complemented his training as an umpire, the little-known pro golfer who, without an army of following fans, is "as lonely as a mountain climber," and the football game between two highbrow Eastern colleges that "left the field strewn with contact lenses...
...Macrae, 67, president since 1944 of E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., publishers; of cancer; in New Canaan, Conn. Widely traveled and equally cosmopolitan in taste, Macrae over the years printed something for practically everyone; he sprang Mickey Spillane on the world (seven biggest sellers: 34.6 million copies), published Mountain Climber Maurice Herzog's classic Annapurna, Lawrence Durrell's The Alexandria Quartet, and Evgeny Evtushenko's Selected Poems. His great friend was A. A. Milne, whose whimsical Winnie-the-Pooh sold more than 1,000,000 copies and appeared in a dozen languages-including a pirated Russian translation...