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Ever since 1965, the tiny Himalayan nation of Nepal had ruled its lofty, snowcapped peaks off-limits to foreign mountaineers. Plagued by an oversupply of inexperienced climbers-and by Chinese Communist protests to the effect that all would-be conquerors of Mount Everest were in reality foreign spies-the Nepalese decided that the foreign-exchange earnings and publicity were not worth the trouble. Last year, however, they changed their minds. One of the first groups of mountaineers to take advantage of the opportunity was an eleven-man American expedition headed by Boyd N. Everett Jr., 35, of New York City...
...quitting or fret about being laid off once the initial lunar landings are made. Internal feuds, once muted, are beginning to erupt in public; most notable was the resignation of Paul Haney, "the voice of Apollo." The NASA budget is down to $3.8 billion from its $5.9 billion 1966 peak. The army of skilled craftsmen, whom Wernher Von Braun calls 90% of NASA's investment, has dwindled from a high of 400,000 to half that number. At current attrition rates, the force will shrink...
Last week the Government announced that prices rose at a faster rate during March than in any other month since the peak of the Korean War inflation. The increase was 0.8%, which, if continued at the same rate for a year, would bring an overall price advance of almost...
Since 1964, her sales have almost tripled to a peak last year of more than $6,000,000. She claims to have 2,000,000 steady customers and ten times as many occasional ones. Yet Beate is some thing of a social outcast. The West German Association of Women Entrepreneurs has resolutely refused to admit her to membership. Church leaders regularly denounce her. Even the tennis club in Flensburg near her home will not allow her to join...
...that sex improves with aid. Her wares include a wide assortment of contraceptives, special-formula bonbons that are supposed to make reluctant fräuleins more cooperative, "quick-lift" panties, battery-operated stimulators priced at $9 each, and even creams to control male timing in sex. "Together to the Peak of Happiness," exhorts Beate's blue-tinted catalogue. To make the journey more enjoyable, she supplies a variety of love potions, creams, sprays and contraptions that purportedly stimulate sex, prolong it or render it more efficient...