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...always, many an attempt ended in tragedy. Near the border resort of Hohegeiss, a crowd of Swedish and Danish tourists watched horrified as a man, wheezing with exhaustion, struggled to climb a pole over the barbed wire. Rushing up with guns blazing, Red border guards kept pumping bullets into him even after he dropped to the ground, left the body for two hours in the weeds...
Most self-made men begin their impatient climb to wealth as teenagers; Daniel Keith Ludwig could not wait that long. As a nine-year-old in South Haven, Mich., he bought a sunken 26-ft. boat for $75, raised and repaired it, then chartered it for twice the price. He has not stopped since. Now a youthful-looking 66, D. K. Ludwig is the world's biggest individual ship operator, commanding a tanker fleet that can carry 2,500,000 tons. As if that were not enough the lean, frugal and publicity-shy Ludwig mines salt in Mexico, refines...
...Alton line switched from steam locomotives, Gilbert laid down his shovel and moved into a new career as a fulltime union official. Elected president of Lodge 707 in 1931, he moved on to the Brotherhood's headquarters in Cleveland in 1942 as a clerk, promptly started a climb up the ladder of union bureaucracy by wrestling with a 90-day crash course in shorthand so that he could be come a stenographer (he still uses shorthand to take voluminous verbatim notes at meetings). Blessed with an adhesive memory for names and faces, he firstnamed countless delegates at Brotherhood conventions...
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...