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...senior in History, Panarese began playing squash as the top player on the freshman squad. The following year he started an ascent up the Harvard varsity ladder that has yet to stop...
...Puzzling Out Man's Ascent" [Nov. 7], a difficult task was accomplished well and with considerable sensitivity. There are many workers in America, Britain, France, Africa, Asia and other places who were not mentioned in the story, and I would not wish them to believe that they were forgotten. As one of the leading French anthropologists, Yves Coppens, said to me, "It is a pity we could not all be mentioned, but it is enough that the subject we are a part of has warranted the status of a TIME cover...
...ascent to gourmandise is no longer a matter of picking up a cookbook and buying a set of copper pots. Present and would-be home chefs support hundreds of cooking schools in the U.S. They are mostly very good?notably James Beard's and Lydie Marshall's classes in Manhattan, or Mary Nell Reek's in Houston, or Rita Leinwand's in Los Angeles. A five-lesson program can cost as much as $350. Boston alone supports 29 cooking schools, teaching everything from dicing to making Dampfnudeln. Whether for culinary kudos or to master grande cuisine, Americans sometimes spend...
...cinematic sojourn into and among the stars remains the ultimate word on spedial effects, "Star Wars" and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" notwithstanding. The opening and closing sequences of the film provide some of the most awesome footage in movie history, portraying the beginnings of man's ascent and the possible end of that progression respectively. The eery genius of the film's bookends has a way of throwing the rest of the narrative into relief, but any movie that features as original a piece of technology as HAL the computer has a lot going...
Passengers were startled by the extreme angle of ascent, which threatened to dump all their hand baggage into the rear toilet. But within 15 minutes the Concordski was level and cruising comfortably ten miles above ground, racing at twice the speed of sound toward Alma-Ata, 1,931 miles away...