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...letters formed an elegant chronicle of hope and hardship, ambition and anguish, written by a plain man who looked only up. In the moonlight, Jim Whittaker wrote to his mother, "this is the most beautiful mountain in the world." "Onward and upward," he wrote to his brother, despite his sorrow at the death of a fellow climber. "I've been an individual enough of my life," he wrote to his wife, Blanche. "The important thing is that someone makes it. I'll be happy to go as high as I can or as high as I am permitted...
...economists anticipate a G.N.P. of at least $585 billion. At the semiannual meeting of the Council's 100 leading businessmen in Hot Springs, Va., Chief Presidential Economist Walter Heller conceded that the Administration had been too con servative about the year, said that the Government might well "revise upward" its own official prediction of a $578 billion G.N.P. for 1963. His hint: about $583 billion. Color Broadcast. In Detroit, auto producers predicted that car sales this month will crack last October's alltime record of 728.552. A few even dared to forecast that 1963 sales will...
...last reports we have for the first four months of 1963 show an upward trend as compared with the 1962 figures...
Never Silent, Never Still. A restless mass of ice that is never silent and never still, Khumbu is a frozen cataract, gashed by echoing crevasses and crisscrossed with cliffs that cannot be scaled. As the men struggled upward, cracks opened and little avalanches plunged down the slopes. On March 23, disaster struck: without warning, an ice wall collapsed and buried Wyoming's John Breitenbach, 27, as he was working to improve the trail. Breitenbach was the first American ever killed scaling Everest...
...years to build, new orders are a key indicator of how businessmen feel about the future. For the first quarter of 1963, U.S. machine toolmakers received $206,700,000 in new orders, a 21% rise over the same quarter a year ago. And the trend continues strongly upward...