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...Rapid City and the surrounding countryside had trekked southwest to the rim of Moonlight Valley, a woodsy pockmark in the Black Hills. There a hushed throng of 50,000 stared down into a floodlit bowl as Explorer II, latest & greatest stratosphere balloon, was made ready for its first ascent. Year ago Explorer I, latest & greatest of its day, had lurched reluctantly skyward from the same natural amphitheatre near Rapid City. At 60,000 ft. the great bag had popped open, plummeted in tatters. Saving themselves by last minute parachuting, the three balloonists lost most of their scientific data, admitted...
Simultaneously 9,000,000 boys & girls of the Hitler Youth were mustered in Summer Solstice Festivals frankly pagan. Mostly these were held on the "sacred German soil" of mountain tops not too difficult of ascent. At some the apple-cheeked, wondering children were invited to cast any sins which they felt they had committed upon Nazi bonfires in which the sins would be consumed...
...that all this was the work of His Majesty's National Government which has taken the pound off gold and raised British tariffs. "I see no reason," said he, "to abandon Government's policies of moderate tariffs and cheap money." The next step in Britain's ascent out of Depression, he said, was a resumption of international lending, and even there a beginning had been made. So expansive was the Chancellor's speech that one correspondent ascribed it to a fine dinner he had just finished at the Hall of the Grocers' Company...
...Vagabond looked ahead and the enchantment of the distant hills drew him. There in mysterious mauve hollows was--he knew not what--but surely more beauty than this grim valley. He began his ascent toiling over brown rocks that slipped and twisted his feet. A small snake whipped across his path and twinkled away scarcely stirring the loose earth. There were no violet hollows, only shadows blotted against the cliff walls by clouds...
Following a trip to Joe-English Mountain in New Hampshire later this month, the members of the Club will make the final ascent of the season when they climb the precipitous face of Mt. Cannon...