Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mountaineering Club will present a public lecture tonight on tales of mountain climbing in the Canadian Yukon. The lecture will be in the Map Room of the Faculty Club at 8 p.m., immediately after the winter dinner. The slide-talk will tell of the intrepid third ascent of the East Ridge of Mt. Logan, the second highest mountain in North America. Everyone interested in learning the details of this unusually difficult climb is urged to attend...
...suspend jet traffic completely during certain hours; in Montreal and London, no jet flights move between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. But appeasing the neighborhood complainers can add to the pilot's problems. At Idlewild, for example, planes using Runway 31-Left are ordered to climb sharply and turn sharp left seconds after take-off to avoid passing over populous Jamaica-which is exactly the procedure followed by the American Airlines jet that crashed into Jamaica Bay (see SCIENCE...
Died. Juan Alberto March y Ordinas, 81. Spanish Croesus (estimated fortune: $300 million to $1 billion) who was often called "the last pirate of the Mediterranean" and who bankrolled Francisco Franco's climb to dictatorship; of injuries sustained two weeks ago when his Cadillac crashed head on into a banking competitor's car; in Madrid. Though he was born penniless on Majorca and remained illiterate until the age of 40, hawk-featured March (pronounced Mark) scaled from stevedore to smuggler to shipowner, won over the Spanish tobacco monopoly, sold to both sides during both World Wars, gained control...
...Geneva next week so that the 18-nation disarmament talks would, in his chummy phrase, "start in the right direction." No major power succumbed, but both the U.S. and Britain warmed slightly to the notion of a summit meeting, possibly in June, if preliminary discussion promises a worthwhile climb...
...stalwart outdoorsmen ski, explore caves, climb rocks, go mountaineering in the winter, and canoe; they are con stantly seeking now members to jeta them in their merriment...