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...summertime the queen of the Alps, 15,781-ft. Mont Blanc, puts only minor difficulties in the path of those who would woo and conquer her. Each year in the climbing season some 75,000 mountaineers flock to the resort town of Chamonix to have a try at scaling her heights, and most of them succeed. But in the winter, when her steep slopes are swept by gales often reaching 100 miles an hour and the temperature drops below zero, the icy-hearted mountain becomes a fickle and merciless termagant. Few, even among expert mountain climbers, care to risk...
Last week, while the Inquirer kept mum, the News front-paged an announcement that it was donating $500 to start a fund for the family of the murdered truck driver. In the same issue the News ran an interview with District Attorney Victor Blanc. The district attorney charged that the motive in Turner's murder "involves payroll padding and padding of overtime pay on the Inquirer." Added Blanc: "The loan shark was a side issue, but we will go through that also. I hope we will be able to make an arrest before too many days-an arrest...
...banquets for some 50 years, the Maitre decided we had better have a four-course dinner before leaving, be prepared, as it were, for the inevitable fruit cup, tasteless mashed potatoes and chicken, topped off by the usual melted ice. So we ordered an iced melon, sole au vin blanc, new potatoes, endive braised, Edam cheese and toasted crackers, fresh strawberry ice, and Vienna coffee with whipped cream. This is why we were late, why I am on a diet and tea, tea, tea. Why Monteux would not hurry a fine dinner for any old banquet...
...level below the hand-ax layer contained mollusks that lived during one of the interglacial warm periods. The hand-ax layer itself was sprinkled with black pumice, a sure sign of volcanic activity. As Professor Blanc reconstructs it, the earliest Romans lived in a moderately warm climate on the shore of a vast lagoon that.covered the present site of Rome. The Torre site may establish what has long been suspected by Italian paleontologists: that Central Italy is one of earth's oldest inhabited places. Confirmation of this theory depends on Blanc's efforts to find human bones...
Died. Louis Lachenal, 35, French mountaineer who with Maurice Herzog in 1950 scaled the 26,493-ft. Himalayan peak, Annapurna, and had to have his toes amputated; after a fall into a 120-ft. crevasse while skiing on Mont Blanc...