Word: ascent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mountaineering Club will present a public lecture tonight on tales of mountain climbing in the Canadian Yukon. The lecture will be in the Map Room of the Faculty Club at 8 p.m., immediately after the winter dinner. The slide-talk will tell of the intrepid third ascent of the East Ridge of Mt. Logan, the second highest mountain in North America. Everyone interested in learning the details of this unusually difficult climb is urged to attend...
...capsule and rocket had separated, and Enos was over Zanzibar. The Zanzibar tracking station reported: "He hasn't missed a trick yet." Neither the acceleration of the roaring ascent nor weightlessness in orbit seemed to bother the meditative chimp. When colored lights appeared in little windows above his couch, he pressed the levers which, as he had been taught, would keep him from suffering mild electric shocks. Over Australia and over the Pacific, the lights appeared as scheduled, and Enos, performing properly, got no shocks. He was reported by Mexico at 11:34 and by Canaveral...
...Massacre of the Innocents; Christ's boyhood, baptism and temptation in the desert; Salome's Dance and the murder of John the Baptist; the Sermon on the Mount, the triumphal procession to Jerusalem, the Last Supper, the Agony in the Garden, the Trial before Pilate, the Ascent of Calvary, the Crucifixion, the Resurrection. Unfortunately, many of these episodes are shamelessly scanted and most of Christ's miracles-certainly the most dramatic moments of his ministry-are inexplicably omitted. The time thus saved is devoted to two bombinating battles that never actually took place; to a wildly unhistorical...
Following a bad storm in the evening, Nickerson and Patterson started for the summit on July 9, as the other three were to wait for a few hours before their ascent. A storm blew up, the trio was left below, and Nickerson and Patterson were caught near the summit. They made their way later through 50-mile-an-hour winds (at -5 or -10 degrees) with minimum visibility...
...Africa, and the spaceship's automatic controls signaled that back in Russia preparations were being made to turn on a braking device, presumably a retrorocket. "This meant," he reported, "that the final stage of the flight had begun-the return to earth, which was perhaps more crucial than ascent into orbit and orbiting itself. I readied myself for it. I faced transition from a condition of weightlessness to new and perhaps even greater overloads. I also faced tremendous heating of the ship's outer surface on entering the denser layers of the atmosphere. I remembered the mishap...