Word: climbers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...raised $326,000 (including $100,000 from the National Geographic Society), wheedled U.S. firms into supplying equipment at cut-rate prices: lightweight oxygen tanks, walkie-talkies, 13 tons of freeze-dried food, vitamins, Metrecal wafers. Then Dyhrenfurth picked his team: 20 men, each an experienced part-time mountain climber, each a specialist in his full-time field-a physicist, a psychologist, a philosopher, a geologist, a geographer, physicians, a sociologist. The expedition was more than a sporting assault: on Everest, Dr. William Siri planned to measure the effects of solar radiation, study the effects of high altitudes on the human...
...Prayer for a Miracle. A zealot who scorned careful preparation, Corti could find no experienced climber to go with him up the Eiger. He had to settle for a good-natured, 44-year-old factory worker, Stefano Longhi, who had never made a strenuous climb. Without so much as glancing at a map of the route, Corti and Longhi impetuously started climbing. Part way up they met two Germans also making the climb and joined forces. Trouble began. One of the Germans developed stomach cramps, and Longhi ran out of breath...
...Potful or not, Cassini's losses were big enough to have erased all his happy memories of the days when he enjoyed the expensive hospitality of the Gilberts' Riviera villa. Snapped Ghighi last week: "Nobody expected what happened. They thought Gilbert was a bluffer and a social climber, yes. But nobody expected him to be a crook...
...husband's business) for the privilege of being on the ball committee. This entitles an eager beaveress to be photographed for the society pages with an established society leader at a fashionable restaurant, and may even lead to a mention in a gossip column. The earnest climber who accumulates enough of such credits, like an Eagle Scout with a sash of merit badges, obtains recognition among her peers...
...Lolita." In fact, the new Don Basilio in The Barber of Seville could at best be ranked only as the fictional nymphet's half brother-the son of her creator, Novelist Vladimir Nabokov. But on his own merits, Harvard-educated Dmitri Nabokov, 27, a part-time mountain climber and amateur road racer, earned bravos from the discriminating Milanese gallery for his comic skill and the rich promise of his voice. Decided Father Nabokov judiciously as his Russian-born wife beamed approval: "I don't know yet whether Dmitri will ever be another Chaliapin, but I certainly think...