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...canny Swiss, advised by Avalanche Expert André Roch, plan to take advantage of this previous British reconnaissance. They will also attack the problem with a new, semisecret weapon: an ingenious "third lung," designed at Zurich and perfected by Swiss watchmakers. Contrary to widespread opinion, there is nothing unsporting about using oxygen, though some British mountaineers might consider it "going soft." Heretofore, it has simply been considered impractical or impossible to haul the added burden. The new lightweight (22 Ibs.) Swiss lung, complete with plastic mouthpiece, is worked by the climber's own breath, which releases the precious oxygen...
...Made possible the anti-Communist trade-union federations' Force Ouvrière in France and C.I.S.L. in Italy. Says André Lafond, a key secretary of F.O.:"'In the history of European labor, Brown will be more important than all the diplomats put together...
With their usual equanimity in political matters, Uruguayans quietly witnessed a notable change in their country's government last week. Just one year after his inauguration, President Andrés Martínez Trueba stepped down from his high office and took oath as a member of the new nine-man federal council. Thus the "Switzerland of the Americas" became one of the two countries in the world to be governed by an executive council with a rotating chairmanship. (The other: Switzerland.) As its first presiding officer, the council chose a man who had worked hard to persuade Uruguayans...
...Michel Collange was just one kilometer short of the finish line when the brakes of his Simca coupe jammed tight. Just outside Mons, Belgium, Swiss Veteran Willy Berger apparently fell asleep at the wheel, smashed his Citroën into a parked truck, was killed instantly. His companion driver, André Hotz, was hauled off to the hospital where he later died...
Intolerance & Anagrams. The ushering began in 1745, when a Paris printer named André François Le Breton hired the impecunious Diderot to work on a modest two-volume encyclopedia. Diderot soon expanded the project, decided to "assemble the knowledge scattered over the surface of the earth . . ." Before he was through, he had persuaded some of the best brains in Europe to help...