Word: ascent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stuart describes his ascent to the MacArthur as "a gradual process," because his interest in archaeology "always seemed like just sort of a hobby." Although he has not yet earmarked any of the grant money he will be receiving, he will use some to return to Mexico and Guatemala. Also, he will definitely attend college within the next few years, and says that the fine quality of Harvard's Anthropology Department may draw him to Cambridge...
...climb speed is slower than a cruise speed. However, seconds later, Pilot 805 reports that the airliner is at an altitude of 10,000 km (33,000 ft.), indicating that either the Su-15's instruments were in error or 007 had not yet started its ascent...
...gratifying to learn that Tabin, 27, who carried off his stunt with several other members of something called the Oxford Dangerous Sports Club, has moved on to more mature concerns. He is in fact a member of an American mountaineering expedition in Tibet that intends to make an ascent without oxygen of Everest's forbidding and unclimbed East Face. George Leigh Mallory, the great British climber who died on Everest while making a summit attempt in 1924, had written of the East Face that "other men, less wise, might attempt this way if they would, but, emphatically...
...France this year, marking the 200th anniversary of the Montgolfiers' first balloon ascent, hot-air balloons are hot indeed; the original flight will be recreated Sept. 19 at Versailles. Meanwhile the Grand Palais is holding an aviation exhibition, with machines on loan from Washington and Moscow, through August. Hot-air flight is also the specialty of the 18th century Château Cezy, located 90 miles southwest of Paris. Its owner, Englishman Donald Porter, offers fearless vacationers ballooning in Burgundy, a four-day, three-night aerial adventure. Meals and wines are lavish, with matching prices: $1,700 a person...
...Ascent into Hell, Greeley...