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...days later mountaineers discovered Chulliat's body in a 500-ft. abyss. They also heard faint cries of "Au secours," but saw no one. The mountaineers rushed back down to Chamonix to round up a rescue party. That afternoon the party discovered Barbacki still perched on his ledge. They could not reach him at once; the melting snows were sending rocks crashing down the mountainside...
...attempt to do in pictures what Rachel Carson did with words in her bestseller about the eternal mother of the world, the sea. Picture for picture the feature-length film is quite as good as the book is word for word-there are glimpses of the green abyss of genesis that take the breath with their terror and loveliness. On this ground, there can be small quarrel with the Academy Award pronouncing The Sea the best Technicolor documentary made last year...
...Abyss. Underneath the ugly sputterings of antiSemitism, the real motive force of the trial seemed to be the factional war between Gottwald and Slansky which has been waged for years. The U.S. State Department theorized that Moscow had been determined to smash one faction or the other to keep the Czech party malleable. But why Slansky instead of Gottwald? Gottwald had long been known as a nationalist first and a Communist second, whereas Slansky had always been the pure type of international Muscovite, without a trace of state allegiance. The only explanation was that at the moment, in the most...
...Cepika (Gottwald's son-in-law) -knew they had had a narrow escape, that their turn might come any time. Truly they are, in Slansky's words, men of two faces. One face is turned toward the brazen sun of power and privilege, the other toward the abyss on whose brink they stand...
...that same year--1951--News editor Norman Roy Grutman reported in an editorial page column called "Slings and Arrows": "Hillhouse beat West Haven by one pizza after touchdown." Neither of these heavily Italian high schools appreciated Grutman's high humor. After embarrassing the University and producing a larger abyss between the two groups, the News printed an editorial apology...