Word: whitney
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Muir Trail, is a killer. It contains more high passes than any other established trail in the continental U.S. At times it seems nothing more than up and down and up again. Twelve-thousand-foot passes, 13,00-foot passes and finally, at the end, Trail Crest and Mt. Whitney at 14,000-plus feet. Only after that summit are there ten easy miles which lead down and out, back to the showers, the cooked food and the bed I looked forward to on the 25th...
However, neither strength nor equipment nor mind control were necessary on the 26th day, the day I should have topped Whitney and finished the hike. Instead there was disappointment all day. It rained hard and heavy, having started the day before in intermittent bursts, the first rain I'd seen the whole trip...
...Whitney Museum...
...completely on painters around the world. But the earlier work of these artists, done before, during and just after World War II, is still patchily known. Last week the first thorough retrospective of it, "Abstract Expressionism: The Formative Years," went on view at New York City's Whitney Museum: an altogether fascinating show of 120 paintings by 15 artists, assembled by Art Historians Robert Carleton Hobbs and Gail Levin...
...Soviets clearly hoped that the Whitney-Piper episode might scare other Western newsmen off the dissidents story. But as U.S. Ambassador Malcolm Toon told some American reporters in Moscow: "Knowing you as I do, I can't think their action will have that effect...