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...microphones, the President ignored the raindrops streaming down his face and soaking his summer suit. "After the hard week I have been through," he said, "it is very heart warming to have such a reception . . . It's really great to be home." Of the conference at the summit, he said: "Just what will be the result ... no one knows. But the coming months will tell much . . . We do know that new contacts have been established, and there is evidence of a new friendliness in the world...
Wright's peroration passed almost unnoticed, since all eyes were suddenly directed to the arrival of a flame-red, air-conditioned Buick out of which flounced Mrs. Mary Tulula ("Militant Mary") Cain, a solidly constructed 50-year-old, who edits the weekly Summit Sun. One of seven children of a railway maintenance supervisor, Mary Cain was born in a railroad camp car and has never stopped rolling ("Never seems to get tired," says her husband, a filling-station operator). Mrs. Cain made her opponents' language seem almost tolerant...
With Khrushchev also in the party, there could be no doubt, as Bulganin told a U.S. consular official, that the talks would be "at the very summit." The American answered that he did not think that one delegation member was at the highest level. Quick as a flash, Bulganin asked, "You mean Zhukov?" And then, without even hinting at the possibility that the Communists hope to capitalize on Marshal Zhukov's old-soldier friendship with Dwight Eisenhower, he set out to justify Zhukov's inclusion. "How can questions of disarmament be solved without him?" asked Bulganin. "Zhukov might...
Tough Terrain. Abiding by Banff National Park regulations, the group registered with authorities to climb Mount Rundle (9,675 ft.). When the boys and their leaders saw Mount Temple, 11,636 ft. high with its craggy, seamed and snow-capped summit towering above Moraine Lake, they decided to climb it. But this time they did not tell the park authorities of their plan-if they had, they probably would have been denied permission because of the dangerous snow conditions of summertime. They did not ask guidance on the route or conditions for scaling Temple's tough terrain. They were...
...four hours they reached 8,500 ft., just above the snow line. Oeser, bothered by blistered feet, decided to go back down; five of the boys followed him. The remaining eleven wanted to go on, and Oeser raised no objection. Lightheartedly, they set out for the summit, 3,000 ft. above, planning to come down before nightfall...