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...slate included William C. Kurs '64, first vice-president; James I. Knapp '64, second vice-president; L. Stockton Illoway '65, operations director; Danny J. Boggs '65, corresponding secretary; John R. Bailey '64, treasurer; Jonathan Jewett '65, Eric A. Von Salzen '65, Mark J. Andrews '66, David L. McNicol '66, and Laurance Rockefeller '66, members at large...
...future of student government at the College may well depend on the actions of the year-old Harvard Council on Undergraduate Affairs as it meets tonight to elect a new slate of officers. Under wise and capable leadership, the HCUA has for the past year intentionally shunned fruitless controversy or political maneuvering, and instead sought out the only practical course open to student government in a community that is notoriously apathetic about student government...
...cliquishness even thrives in its political groups. For example, Slate, the reasonably influential, peace-oriented student political party, has its own social gatherings, which draw a constant flock of distinctly "Slate-types." One sophomore commented that he had been deterred from joining Slate for fear of being "lost in the clique...
...fitter named Rainer Kauschke, 24, and a tough, muscular carpenter named Gerd Uner, 22. Taking unpaid leaves from their jobs, the three each chipped in $1,000 for food and medical supplies, down-lined clothes, lightweight nylon ropes and 1,000 special pitons, designed by Kauschke. On the sheer slate and limestone of the "elevator," Siegert knew they would find few natural handholds; only the ropes and pitons would keep the three human flies from plunging to their deaths...
...Like Ants." On the twelfth day, the three men reached the treacherous "black board"-a 230-ft.-high cliff of solid slate almost impervious to drills and pitons. "They look like ants crawling up a building," reported one pilot. "But they wave and seem all right." Cautiously, the climbers eased their way through the "great cathedral"-a double-faced outcropping of rock. At last, after 16 days of suspended existence, Siegert reported: "We feel solid ground beneath our soles." He was on a ledge, 300 ft. below the summit, that measured just 1 ft. wide...