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...their tents at 6 a.m., the boys run three-quarters of a mile to a frigid stream and plunge in. They spend hour after hour training muscles, learning survival techniques, studying mountain-craft, developing leadership. In between come big endurance tests: a five-day climb in windswept high country, a six-mile run up and down mountains (best boy's time so far: 38 min. 10 sec.), a 50-mile hike to test speed and accuracy over a specified route, a 48-hour session alone in the woods without food, which becomes a lesson in the edible qualities...
Pictures to Doff Hats At. West's climb from poor innkeeper's son to historical painter for King George III is a remarkable success story in itself, but the happiest part of it was West's relationship to his students. When he settled in London after completing his studies in Rome, the art world was turning back to antiquity. The Allentown show includes samples of the writings of Johann Joachim Winckelmann, for it was he who gave the movement its rallying cry: "There is but one way for the moderns to become great, and perhaps unequaled...
...blizzards and bitter cold of the Himalayas for 50 days with only 20 days' rations. Led by Tufts University Philosophy Professor Woodrow Wilson Sayre, 43, grandson of the late U.S. President, the amateur foursome-including a geology student, a Boston attorney, a Swiss schoolteacher-had cocksurely attempted to climb the unsealed 25,910-ft. Gyachung Kang peak without either oxygen or Sherpa guides...
...services of the great students. It can altar or course, and its repeated efforts to create an acceptable course in logical sciences form one would be hard to tell whether influence has yet spread to other , but it certainly affects teaching fellows the Committee the men who will climb the ladder to tenure in the department . This effect can certainly be expected to increase...
...Though Wall Street cynically holds that the public memory endures roughly 24 hours, few market professionals at week's end believed that small investors, once burned, would soon return to the market in such numbers as before, or that the deflated glamour stocks could look for another astronomical climb that so disregarded price-earnings ratios. With something close to unanimity, analysts expressed the hunch that the Dow-Jones would probably struggle slowly back to the neighborhood of 650-largely stimulated by institutional buying, focusing on stocks with proven growth records, dividend yields of 4% or so, and price-earnings...