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Andrew Kaufman '43 will give an illustrated lecture on the Club's first Peruvian expedition, which last August attempted to climb 19,000 foot Mr Huagerruche. He will then discuss organization of the second expedition, aiming to tackle a new and higher peak in the Andes...
Well aware that milers do not reach their peak until they are 25 (Cunningham ran his 4:07.4 when he was 28), track experts predict that up-&-coming MacMitchell may some day run a mile in four minutes flat...
...Vega plants that cover nearly 400 acres. Hundreds of war planes, complete and incomplete, stood in the fields outside the guarded buildings. TWA's stratoliner roared off with him toward the darkening east, above the clouds, over the Painted Desert, past the San Francisco Mountains, whose highest peak rises higher than sacred Fujiyama. When the plane came down at Albuquerque (on another huge new Army air field) Saburo Kurusu had already flown in the U.S. farther than from Shanghai to Chungking. And he was less than a third of the way across the enormous room...
...black & white page rate had stayed at $8,000. The new rate ($8,500) will be effective next July 4. Curtis also announced the first increase in 14 years for the Ladies' Home Journal. Last month the Journal announced a new peak circulation of 4,050,000 but advertisers paid less than they paid for 2.500,000 circulation in 1927 ($9,500). The new rate, effective next July, will be upped...
Britain itself has contracted for 80% of Canada's output (peak production around 300,000 tons), has first call on Africa's mines. Since the U.S. is now re-exporting, under Lend-Lease, some 40% of its copper imports from the Western Hemisphere, it would make little sense to press for more of the Empire copper that Britain is already getting directly...