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From below, at 17,000 ft., a member of a second descending party-four men and a woman-turned and saw the fall. Three of them, one a physician, crawled back to help the stricken team, while Mrs. Helga Bading remained with Paul Crews and a two-way portable radio. Soon, monitors at a radio shop in Anchorage, 140 miles away, heard Crews's call for help: all four in the upper party were injured -broken limbs, head injuries, frostbite-and now Mrs. Bading herself, a slight (95 lbs., 4 ft. 11 in.) woman, was sick from lack...
...Else." To Steve Bilko, that difference has long been the one between success and failure. By last week he was hitting a poverty-stricken .135, was riding the Detroit bench, and had every reason to expect to pack. To Steve Bilko, it was a familiar story. "In the minors, you can have your ups and downs. But here, you got to be up all the time-or else...
...successive quakes trapped and killed rescue workers trying to dig out survivors from the first disaster. France offered a stethoscope device successfully used in Agadir in March to detect still breathing victims trapped beneath the rubble. The U.S. naval attache in Teheran flew a DC-3 down to the stricken city with emergency supplies and took out survivors. At week's end Queen Farah, who is expecting her first child this fall, offered to take 200 motherless children of Lar into the royal orphanages...
Workers-ultimately 60,000 of them-flocked from all over Brazil, in particular from the drought-stricken northeastern bulge. "They mortgage everything to pay for a jouncing, weeklong ride in a truck to Brasilia," said a contractor. "After six months they visit home by plane...
Lerner loves to provoke students ("Thrilling," says one) who spout Gandhi's idealism-and refuse to get their hands dirty in the new world. When they insist that poverty-stricken India is nonetheless "contented," Lerner snaps back: "Like a cow?" He points to the U.S. experience. A healthy discontent, says he, is the key to "social dynamism." The lack of this quality, he adds, is what ails India...