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...determined party of Swiss climbers still did care. Mount Everest was still there, unconquered. Headed by Swiss Guide Raymond Lambert, 38, who had come within 900 ft. of Everest's summit last spring-the highest man has reached and lived to tell about it-the climbers clawed their way up the icy, rocky, windswept slope. They could no longer wait for the winds to abate...
...Miserable War. A yard from the summit the two sergeants froze. Just ahead, almost within touching distance, a Chinese stood vaguely silhouetted against the dark sky. They tensed to tackle him; their mission was to bring back a prisoner. But in that split second, warned by smell or some faint sound, the Chinese touched the trigger of his burp gun. Main shot the prisoner-to-be instantly and regretfully with his .45, but the second sergeant rolled backward down the hill with an astounded gasp, slugs in his arm, leg and belly. After that the night was noisy with gunfire...
...Marines sprayed the summit with automatic-carbine fire. Chinese on the ridge replied with burp guns. Amid the brush of the slope, Marines tumbled the bulky, bleeding form of the wounded sergeant on to a poncho and labored off in the darkness, a man hauling at each corner of the improvised litter. Bright, raucous mortar bursts followed along behind them. The bursts were short and above the din they heard a cheering sound-two alarmed Chinese patrols back on the ridge were busily trying to kill each other. The Marines reached their own lines safely by dawn...
...north of Barcelona. Surrealist Dali has been working, and last week he was ready to unveil what he regards as his masterpiece. It is a large (7½ft. by 4⅔ ft.) Madonna which Dali calls in Latin Assumpta Corpuscularia Lapislazulina (The Bodily Assumption in Blue). At the summit of his elongated Madonna is the head of his wife, Gala, gazing heavenward; her body is being reconstructed in a sunburst of softly colored atomic corpuscles. The body is still transparent and through it, Christ can be seen floating above an altar in a crystal cathedral. At the base...
...Brooks (11,900 ft.) and Mather (12,000 ft.) expedition of four men, got, in a sense, a triple victory. They made the first ascents of these peaks, collected valuable botanical data, and set up a survey station on the summit of Brooks...