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Testifying before a House subcommittee, Admiral Byrd made some dazzling statements : "We discovered a seam of coal down there that we think is sufficient to supply the United States for 100 years or more. This seam of coal is ... exposed along the slope of a high mountain range so that it is not necessary...
Individual honors went to Dartmouth's Warren Chivers, who swept down the difficult Hillman Highway slope in 50.4 seconds, and the first Crimson finisher was Bill Hinton in 53.2 seconds...
Hollmeyer is also entered in the Bear Mountain downhill race sponsored by the Eastern Slope Ski Club which is to take place February 26 at Bartlett, New Hampshire...
...course it is almost impossible to climb with a lacquer base on the skis, so for practice slope work, some one of the climbing slope waxes can be used to help out. But in any climb of extended length it is much better to use the very efficient plushskin or moleskin...
...More rugged than Brazil's coastal slopes are the rocky volcanic upjuts that wall Mexico City. One rail route down to the Gulf at Veracruz skirts the hills around Tlaxcala, 45 miles east of Mexico City. One morning last week more than 1,000 Government employes and their families, off for a collective workers' Christmas holiday, jammed their way into seven obsolete wooden, second-class cars, equipped inside with long, hard, wooden benches. Seven classier steel cars completed the train. Rounding a curve on a downgrade near Tlaxcala, the locomotive broke an axle, jumped the track and spilled...