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...slopes, while more than 100 people have attained the summit. Thanks in part to the National Park Service, which firmly winnows some 300 applications a year, at least half a dozen expeditions annually make a safe and often successful try to ascend Denali-the Great One-as Yukon Indians call the mountain...
...statement made it clear that De Gaulle was not about to apologize to his Canadian hosts or even appear contrite for the clamor he raised with his call for a Quebec libre. Well aware that his new statement would only keep the hassle alive, he said with a kind of wistful pride: "It's always been like that." Lest any of his ministers had forgotten, he then recalled the brouhahas of other days-from his refusal to meet F.D.R. after the Yalta Conference in 1945 to his recognition of Red China in 1964. The Canadian government, however, refused...
...Commissioner of the 6,000,000-member World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts ("We've had them all-Queen Elizabeth, Queen Juliana of The Netherlands, and that nice little Queen of Greece"), urges forward the cause of scouting with unflagging noblesse. "When I travel, I always call on ministers and kings and queens," she says. "There's a lot of them left." And should she meet a commoner un familiar with the name of Baden-Powell, she still quotes a rhymed guide to pronunciation taught her by her husband 55 years...
...Please call it Baden...
Despite doubts about the role of rats in long-ago typhus epidemics, there is no doubt that they and their fleas transmit what doctors call murine typhus, a milder but perennial and widespread form of the disease. In their travels from sewers to trash cans to kitchens, rats may carry the germs of epidemic jaundice, tularemia, typhoid fever and severe food poisoning, the parasites of trichinosis, and even rabies virus...