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...Arnold's apparatus should extend the "Carbon 14 calendar" back from 23,000 to 42,000 B.C. and spot, within 37 years, the date, for instance, when slope-browed Neanderthal men roasted a wooly rhinoceros...
Skier Mannstedt picked himself up a long way down the slope, resolutely tried again - this time with the proper bindings...
...been gripped by the intense cold, frozen into immobility ... [Yet] this labyrinth of broken ice is moving, its surface changing." High over the monumental, 2,000-foot icefall, with its treacherously shifting crevasses and its crashing, house-high blocks of ice, stands a greater obstacle-a steep slope of ice and snow rising a vertical distance of 4,000 feet. Beyond that lies the last and toughest 3,000-foot rise to the highest point on the surface of the earth...
...little more than two years of power, Sir Winston Churchill has led Britain from the edge of bankruptcy to an upward slope. Pledged to free Britain of her Socialist shackles, the Tories have ended a lot of controls. Britain's gold and dollar reserves are up; rationing is all but ended, and in the shops there is meat for all. But taxes are still so high as to discourage initiative, and Britain's economy is still essentially planned and subsidized. And its cost of living has gone steadily up. There is a new form of rationing...
...grumbled last week. "They would have fortified all the passes and we could just move in and make tea. As it is now, if we even build a blockhouse on the border. Mr. Lung [meaning the Chinese] would think we were showing bad intentions." The officer pointed down the slope of the Himalayas. "That is why," he said, "we have to stay back there...