Word: ascent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...final script, M-G-M eliminated an entire subplot that gives the middle of the story its shape and suspense. But the religious theme is handled with rare restraint and good taste. The face of Christ is never fully revealed. The Sermon on the Mount, The Trial. The Ascent of Calvary and The Crucifixion are pictured, without breathless reverence, in a matter-of-fact manner, as contemporary political events...
Meanwhile, the rocket to the other side of the United States Government continues its slow, steady, somewhat elliptical ascent...
Conquest (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). After a season full of soaring space shots, Air Force Major David Simons' record-breaking 1957 balloon ascent (20 miles up) may seem minor stuff. But even in a rerun, it is an exciting adventure...
Bold Journey (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Cooling fare for a summer evening-the ascent of Mt. McKinley, highest peak in North America (20,270 ft.), by Brad Washburn's twelve-man, one-woman expedition...
...there was the slender bamboo pole that had been planted on the summit in 1947 by Bradford Washburn, a mountain-climbing geographer. Three men burst into tears. "Do you realize," gasped Buckingham, "do you realize what we've done? Four hackers-we've made a great ascent, maybe the greatest outside of South America in the world...