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Approaching his destination confronted by weather conditions that he had not been led to expect, and flying a plane that was not equipped with de-icing devices, Captain Norris asked for and got permission to climb to 15,000 ft. At 11:21 a.m., he said that he could see the south shore of Lake Tahoe. Eight minutes later, he radioed: "Flight 901A . . ." Then his radio went dead...
...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). A climb up the Matterhorn in Switzerland and water-skiing at Pine Mountain...
...Anti-Semitism in the corporate business world is probably less prevalent than your essay indicates. Many Jews who fail to climb the executive ladder are quick to use anti-Semitism as a cloak to hide their own weaknesses. These people, by helping to keep the fear of anti-Semitism alive among Jews, do more harm to Judaism than George Lincoln Rockwell and the whole American Nazi Party...
...wander with eyelids sewn shut; the gluttonous gaze at inaccessible fruit. As Dante and Virgil ascend, they meet famous figures of the Middle Ages engaged in the agonies of atonement-among them Pope Adrian V, King Philip the Fair, the poets Guido Guinizelli and Arnaut Daniel. At first the climb is cruelly difficult, but as Dante ascends it becomes easier. Both as a man and a poet, he visibly grows as he goes. In I'lnferno the verse is harsh, immediate, brilliant; in Il Purgatorio it becomes progressively more rich and reflective...
...they owe as by what they own. The federal budget shows a deficit of $3.8 billion for fiscal 1965, and Congress has just raised the debt ceiling from $324 to $328 billion. Personal debt, rising faster than the Government's, is above $264 billion; this year it will climb another $26 billion, or more than the combined gross national products of Ireland, Israel, Norway and Belgium. The debt of the average American family now stands at an awesome 60% of its after-tax income for one year. In a generation, most of the facts and beliefs about debt have...