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Dark and forbidding, the rocky pinnacle rises 9,750 ft. out of the Italian Dolomites, and the last 1,800 ft. of its north wall is as sheer and smooth as a Manhattan skyscraper. An Italian team first scaled Cima Grande di Lavaredo's north wall in 1933. and the rock is stitched with hundreds of pitons, or spikes, left behind by alpinists following the winding "staircase" trail to the summit. But not until this month did anyone tackle Cima Grande's north wall by the "elevator route"-straight up. Even in summer, that route was so perilous...
Last week, on the 17th day of their ascent, the three men stumbled up a sloping snow field, into blinding sunlight, and fell tearfully into the arms of Italian guides who had gone up Cima Grande's easy south wall to meet them at the summit. "We want to sleep," mumbled Siegert. "It was rough...
Meneghini CallasX The offering: Cima-rosa's charming // Matrimonio Segreto (The Secret Marriage), with such Scala names as Caro Badioli, Eugenia Ratti, Graziella Sciutti and Giulietta Simionato -all first-rate singers but not of world reputation. The opera has been performed scores of times at La Scala (last in 1948), but in the vast house it never came across with such gusto, immediacy or subtlety. The press was as happy as the audience, and only a few backstage complaints about the cramped space kept the accolade from being unanimous...
...When Cima ran short of funds before the first volume was printed, other publishing houses refused to join in such a formidably uncommercial undertaking...
Publisher Cima went ahead anyhow, is trusting to God's providence for money to see the series through. Scholar Schopp heads a seven-man editorial board which plans to bring out at least one volume a month for the next five or six years...