Word: ascent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...perfectly willing for it to go out of business-it's not worth saving at that price." As usual, the debate is likely to focus most sharply on what workers are to be included on the minimum-wage elevator, rather than on the elevator's rate of ascent. While hourly wages under the law have been hiked four times from the original minimum of 25? in 1938 to $1 in 1956. coverage has never been expanded, in fact has slightly contracted. The minimum level has seldom reached half the average U.S. hourly wage, now $2.32. but fewer than...
...hours Dave Rearick, 28, a Ph.D. in mathematics from Caltech, and Bob Kamps, 26, a fourth-grade teacher in North Hollywood, stood on a ledge called Broadway and studied the wall looming over their heads. Then Rearick began the ascent. It took him half an hour to reach a narrow shelf 75 ft. up and toss down a rope for Kamps. From then on, their progress was measured in hours and inches. At dusk, they huddled on a tiny ledge, drove pitons into the sheer rock face and dozed through a night of wind and cold, lashed to the Diamond...
...might have quit except we burned our bridges behind us when we pulled most of our pitons," said Rearick. "We could never have gotten back down to Broadway." Then he made a terse entry in the logbook at the summit of Longs Peak: "First ascent of the Diamond...
Bends & Bubbles. For the untrained or careless diver, Aqua-Lunging presents a host of dangers: swimming too long in cold water can subtly bleed off his body heat until he finds himself suddenly exhausted ; holding his breath during the last 30 ft. of ascent can rupture his lungs as they expand under the rapidly decreasing pressure; successive deep descents can cripple him with the old diver's disease of the bends unless he decompresses the nitrogen bubbles in his blood by lingering at graduated stages...