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North Troy (Jay Peak)--25-25, powder, excellent...
...above it all in the high Himalayas. Grubstaked with a tidy $200,000 from Chicago Publisher Bailey Howard (World Book Encyclopedia), Sir Edmund will attempt the most grueling mountaineering feat ever tried-to climb hazardous Mount Makalu (27,790 ft. and the world's fifth highest peak) without benefit of oxygen equipment. To prepare for the endeavor, Hillary and the other climbers plan to winter at 20,000 ft. Along the way Sir Edmund hopes to bump into an Abominable Snowman (TIME. Aug. 10), drop him with a tranquilizer shot from a hypodermic gun, in order to become better...
...economists - had charted. The faster pace was revealed when the Fed updated its industrial-production index for the first time since 1953; output has been rising at a rate of 4.1% a year from 1947 to date, v. 3.7% previously calculated. As a result, the revised index hit a peak of 166 (1947-49 equals 100) last June before the steel strike, instead of the 155 previously reported...
Died. John Oliver La Gorce, 79, longtime writer (1905-59) and editor (1954-57) of the National Geographic Magazine, who reported scenery and customs from remote parts of the world where he constantly traveled, gave his name to a glacier in Alaska, a mountain peak in Antarctica, and an island off Miami; in Washington...
Happy Papa. Cribmaking reached a peak in the 17th and 18th centuries, and there were no inhibitions against anachronism; in one Augsburg crib the Annunciation takes place in a miniature Louis XVI drawing room with the Angel Gabriel dressed like a court page...