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...mountaineers the world over, hopes to climb Everest for other reasons than Mallory's simple "because it's there." Alpinist Roch is also imaginatively challenged by other inaccessible Himalaya buttresses and spires. Says Roch: "The great attraction of the Himalayas lies not only in reaching a summit, but also in the simple contemplation of the wild flanks which probably never can be climbed...
Mary Gwendolyn Brigham '53 of Moors Hall and Montclair, New Jersey, and Shirley Laird '53 of Moors and Summit, New Jersey, were appointed Grant-in-Aid Chairman and "Drumbeats" Director, respectively, by the 'Cliffe Student Council yesterday...
...tact and shrewdness needed for NATO's new job. He, himself, in a House of Lords speech last year, was searchingly critical of NATO's unwieldy complexity: "Rather a lot of harness and not much horse," he called it. "I believe there is a hiatus at the summit...
...permanent chairman, the chief administrator of its staff, its top civilian liaison man with its nominal military subordinate. General Eisenhower, and the man who must nudge the governments to make sure they carry out their commitments. It will be up to Ismay to see that the hiatus at the summit is filled...
Connie died on June 2, 1951, near Chipo, Korea, at the summit of a heavily defended hill which his company had been attacking without success for two days. When his platoon leader was wounded on the third day, Connie took over. The assault party was pinned down by intense fire from automatic weapons in fortified emplacements above them. Connie crept forward, knocked out the first two positions with hand grenades, and organized a new assault. He was badly wounded. The platoon was driven back by a hail of explosives. Undaunted, he regrouped his men and led them forward once more...