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...Expedition Leader Norman Dyhrenfurth waited for a walkie-talkie message from the climbers. Just below 28,000 ft., the West Ridge team faced its toughest obstacle: the "Yellow Band"-a 100-ft.-high cliff that resembles a shingled roof. Only pitons and rappel ropes kept Hornbein and Unsoeld inching upward. At last they radioed back that they had crossed the Yellow Band safely. But now they were past the "point of no return." Their supply of pitons was gone. They had to reach the summit and head down the easier South...
Cooper was in other ways disconcerting. He has a passion for fast cars, drives his 1963 Sting Ray Chevrolet at speeds upward of 100 m.p.h. His humor is unpredictable. Before the first Mercury flight, by Shepard, Cooper was asked to demonstrate to television cameramen how the astronaut would ride to the launch pad in a van and enter a gantry elevator for the space shot. Cooper donned a silver space suit, walked to the elevator entrance-and stopped in mock horror. As cameras whirred, he grabbed a girder and screamed: "No! I don't wanna...
Actually, as pitchers' repertories go, Spahn's is fairly extensive. He has four basic pitches: a fast ball that sails upward as it nears the plate; a curve that breaks to his right; a screwball that breaks left; and a slider-a modified fast ball that veers slightly inside to a right-handed batter. Every pitch starts with precisely the same motion: a long, slow rock-back, a high fluid kick, and a flurry of arms and legs that "makes the ball look as though it is coming right out of my uniform." And then there...
...doing is in flux and on the run, and will continue to be so for some time to come. A shock wave of greater and faster and deeper learning is passing through the whole system. It bit the elementary college courses a few years ago, and is now passing upward through the curriculum. Shortly it will bit the professional schools, and they two will have to revise their practices radically. This is no time to try to live by the book--any book. Our sanctions must lie elsewhere--in the pertinence and relevance and effectiveness of what we are doing...
...less than 90 minutes the film poses its universal question: How could a sensible people like the Germans be fooled by a fox? A quotation from Ecclesiastes is offered as the answer: "Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth...