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...Yards ball park, one can appreciate why baseball bard Roger Angell proclaimed, "This is a fan's park . . . They've done it at last." Although Camden Yards is designed by the same firm that created Comiskey, here the upper deck is a graceful incline, not a mountain climb with Sherpa guides. Downtown Baltimore is always in view, from the Bromo-Seltzer clock tower behind left field to the massive, restored brick warehouse in right field that will become a 460-ft.-from-home-pl ate target. (Already the Orioles are searching for lefthanded sluggers with "warehouse power.") The homage...
...when she wasn't using oxygen. This is what he remembers and what virtually all climbers report. Not Allison; she said she had no problems, with or without oxygen. And clearly this is true; at the summit, which she reached without trouble, she spent 45 minutes waiting for her Sherpa and photographing herself with the logos of various corporate sponsors. Then she made an unbelievable descent all the way to Camp 1, at about...
Then strength and her adventurer's enchanted luck took over. She swung her ice ax, sunk it into the snow face and performed a perfect self-arrest, just the way they teach it in climbing school. She ditched the oxygen bottle and found her Sherpa. The only thing she could see by this time was the blue of his boots, so she followed the moving blue blobs. The next day her eyes were swollen shut...
...nations who will meet at Versailles.* The first Western economic summit was held in 1975 in Rambouillet, France, to grapple with worldwide inflation and soaring energy costs; not since then have so many economic problems seemed so difficult to control. For nearly three months, middle-level diplomats-known as "sherpas," after the Tibetan guides who lead the way to the summits of the Himalayas-have been trying to work out tentative agreements on the major issues. Said Assistant Secretary of State Robert Hormats, who has been involved in all seven previous economic summits and is now the chief American sherpa...
Jimmy Carter, 56, on a 1½-week tour of China, dined with Premier Zhao Ziyang, cycled with commuters and displayed Sherpa-like stamina by scampering up and down the steeper sections of the Great Wall as Wife Rosalynn and former Press Secretary Jody Powell, 37, gasped for breath. At a tête-à-tête with Deng Xiaoping, 77, in the Great Hall of the People, Carter told the Chinese Senior Vice Chairman, "If you had been my running mate in the last election, we would have won again." So much for Walter What...