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...rock face, 40 ft. high and holdless. At sea level this would be a minor obstacle to a trained mountaineer, but at 29,000 ft., neither Hillary nor Tenzing could attempt it. Instead they found a chimney that opened to the top. Hillary went first and crabbled his way upward through the chimney, using shoulders and knees as levers. Then it was Tenzing's turn, and soon the pair lay together in the frozen snow...
...fears of a recession, G.E.'s Chairman Philip Reed declared that whatever temporary setback might come, the economy is "in a long-term upward trend." If consumers begin spending as big a percentage of their income as they did in 1929 or even 1939, said Reed, the annual demand for consumer products alone would increase by $7 billion a year. Evidence that they would continue to spend was provided by a Federal Reserve Board survey. The FRB reported that consumers are not only saving more money but "are in more of a buying mood than at [any] time...
...American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Geologist Dorsey Hager attempts to prove that Meteor Crater is nothing but an ancient sinkhole that just happened to get peppered, late in its life, by a swarm of meteorites. According to Hager, Meteor Crater started as a steep-sided dome thrust upward several million years ago by geological forces. Its rock was splintered by distortion, and water penetrated to "evaporite" (salt) beds far below it. After millions of years, the water removed a lot of this soluble stuff, leaving enormous caverns. At last the roof fell in and parts of the walls tumbled after...
Waterworks engineers across the U.S. have been puzzled by capricious rises and falls in the volume of water used in the early evening. Like clockwork on the hour and the half hour, the demand shoots violently upward-sometimes as much as 30% during a five-minute period. As puzzled as any of his colleagues, Water Commissioner George J. Van Dorp of Toledo, Ohio studied his charts, maps and figures and set out to find the culprit...
...brow, he sat at the piano, singing and playing; and then, like a great black cat in trouble in the jungle, he stiffened and trembled, and cried out. Jesus, Jesus, oh Lord Jesus! He struck on the piano one last, wild note and threw up his hands, palms upward, stretched wide apart. The tambourines raced to fill the vacuum left by his silent piano, and his cry drew answering cries. Then he was on his feet, turning, blind, his face congested, contorted with this rage, and the muscles leaping and swelling in his long, dark neck . . . and he began...