Word: climbed
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...gophers, and Clayboy Spencer (MacArthur), the apple of all eyes, wants to go to college. Father Fonda is bound to get him there. Mimsy Farmer is bound to get him into the clover, but Clayboy is no playboy, and it takes many reels before she gets him to climb the mountain "to grow up." Parents who prefer their kids to learn about life in a setting other than the widescreen Wyoming hills would do well to follow the lead of Mother Maureen O'Hara who says: "Come along, children. We'll wait for Daddy back in the truck...
...Whittaker, together with a Sherpa guide named Nwang Gombu,* who planted a U.S. flag at the summit of Mount Everest on May 1. The Best in a Person. Manager of a Seattle store that sells mountaineering equipment, towering (6 ft. 5 in., 210 Ibs.) Jim Whittaker started climbing as a Boy Scout in the early 1940s. By the time he and his twin brother Lou were in high school, they were expert enough to join Seattle's Mountain Rescue Council. The twins spent college summers guiding footsore tourists up the steep slopes of 14,408-ft. Mount Rainier...
Toward $600 Billion. The net result is that the gross national product grew by $8.5 billion through March, should climb another $10 billion by the end of June. Since it started at $563.5 billion in January, the present rate of increase would push G.N.P. close to $600 billion by year's end. While few experts are quite that optimistic, most now foresee a year-end figure far above the Kennedy Administration's January estimate of $578 billion...
There are, of course, soft spots-especially in the persistently high rate of unemployment, which has not been below 5% in five years. There were hopeful signs in March, when the rate dropped from February's 6.1% to 5.6%-but last month it began to climb again. Most economists would agree with the Administration that a tax cut might help. But there is great disagreement about the form the tax cut should take...
Obeying the occult rules of what's "in," decorous little teen-aged girls from fashionable Manhattan schools must this spring climb, white-sneakered, to the top spiral of the Guggenheim Museum. Low-voiced and appreciative, they stand there taking notes for essays on an enormous painting that has an all-over pattern of gooey brown and a row of real, 3-in. buttons running down the middle. It is called Coat. The girls do not laugh. Coat is pop art. And pop art, much as it may outrage Pop, not to mention Grandpop, is the biggest fad since...