Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seven Harvard mountain climbers, who for four days had been feared lost on the treacherous northern slopes of Alaska's Mt. McKinley, were spotted Sunday night by a rescue plane and appear to be safe and continuing their climb...
...Mountaineering Club is attempting an extremely difficult ascent of the 19,420-foot North Peak of Mt. McKinley. The climb involves scaling Wickersham Wall, a sheer precipice of rock which rises some 14,000 feet. A group of Canadians climbed the wall last month, but the eastern route of the Harvard climbers is considerably more challenging than the route taken by the Canadian party...
...would like to see an authentic and conservative old-time men's shop, climb the stairs at 4 Linden St. to the atmospheric hideout of Duncan Macandrew, merchant tailor. Outfitting the distinguished and conservative in a manner reminiscent of Saville Row, this shop sells hand-knitted Harris tweed hose and the 1937 four-inch-wide necktie in an incredible collection of haberdashery...
Like many of Germany's most powerful younger men, Beitz began his postwar climb by working for the Western Allies. Son of a small-time bank clerk, Beitz in 1946 sold the British occupiers on hiring him as chief insurance supervisor in their zone-though he knew nothing about insurance-and went from there to the presidency of a small insurance company that he built into Germany's third biggest...
Bright Lights. Her parents split up when she was a child. With her mother, Christine moved into a converted bus coach near the Thames that was little more than a shanty on wheels. Even then, Christine's eye was on the main chance. Often she would climb up on the knee of a neighbor and beg to be told about the bright lights in the big cities. "She was forever asking me to tell her stories about life in London," recalls the neighbor. "I spent hours telling her about her dreamland...