Word: blomberg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Blomberg, writing in the American Journal of Psychiatry in 1960, claimed that 40 per cent of patients in state mental hospitals have been hospitalized for ten years or more. He said, "Once a person has remained in a large mental hospital for two years or more, he is quite unlikely to leave except by death...
...ordeal began on Jan. 30, when a party of eight climbers headed by Colorado's Gregg Blomberg, 25, landed by airplane on Kahiltna Glacier, 7,250 ft. up McKinley's west slope. Less than 24 hours later, France's Jacques Batkin, who was bringing supplies to the base camp at 7,600 ft., plunged 50 ft. to his death in a crevasse hidden by snow and ice. Dr. George Wichman, an orthopedic surgeon and amateur mountaineer from Anchorage, Alaska, saw him fall. "One minute Jacques was there," recalls Wichman. "He was hauling his load, chest thrown...
...days, the three huddled in a trench at 18,200 ft. Their supplies ran out, and only the lucky discovery of a food cache left by summertime climbers saved them. Unaware of the cache, their four companions 900 ft. below gave them up for lost; Blomberg and John Edwards battled their way back to 10,000 ft. and stamped out a message in the snow: WEX6-DON-HELP. An observation plane relayed it to Anchorage. Instantly a massive rescue operation was under...
...missing climbers. Up from Seattle to help came half a dozen volunteers, including Jim Whittaker, who in 1963 became the first American to scale Mount Everest. It took rescuers four days to locate the seven climbers. The summit men were picked up by helicopter at 13,350 ft. Blomberg and Edwards got back to the base camp by themselves; Wichman and Shiro Nishimae were located in an igloo at 10,200 ft. They were suffering from nothing more serious than stiff muscles, frostbite and a frightening feeling that they had used up a lot of their luck. What...
...that preoccupied him in his fictionalized autobiography, Ushant). But story and symbol never meet, with the result that cascades of imagery and torrents of metaphor are expended on events that have all the inherent drama of a railroad timetable. The train pulls into the town of Galion, Ohio, and Blomberg is jolted awake: "Galion! They had come to Galion; this point in chaos and eternal night was Galion." To Blomberg, the trip signifies that she is "taking her heart as an offering to the bloodstained altar of the plumed serpent...