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...temporary retirement was well-traveled Sir Edmund Hillary, conqueror of Mount Everest and the South Pole, who withdrew from a proposed lecture tour in Britain, as he put it, "to stay home with Mum and the kids"-for a year-in New Zealand. In the Hillary future: physiological endurance tests in his old freezing grounds, the Himalayas, possibly another Antarctic expedition...
...After 13 months of lavishly air-supplied U.S. occupancy, it has been described as "looking like a Chinese laundry after a hurricane," with assorted litter peppering the snow. But getting around the Antarctic by land is still quite a trick. Last week New Zealand's Sir Edmund Hillary, conqueror of Mt. Everest, arrived at the South Pole after a 1,200-mile journey by tractor from the British base at Scott Station on the Ross Sea (see map). He made it with only one drum of gasoline left, enough for 20 miles of travel...
...Rebels showed the kind of power they were supposed to see in Tennessee's single wing and ran over the Volunteers, 14-7. Among the even-money choices, Ohio State squeaked past Iowa 17-13 and earned a trip to the Rose Bowl to play Oregon, conqueror of Southern California...
...second and third scoreless quarters saw Brown, realizing that Harvard had not scored, deciding they might score on Princeton's conqueror after all. Play shifted up and down the field, often halted by whistles penalizing Brown's rather bearish quality of soccer...
Shortly before a Russian dog became the highest form of animal life (see SCIENCE), Sherpa Guide Tensing Norkay, co-conqueror of Mount Everest, trotted out one of a Tibetan breed that formerly contended for the altitude mark. Raised in the high Himalayas, Tensing's homebred personal pet, a Lhasa Apso, was a notable attraction at a London kennel club show...