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...Zealand's beekeeping Mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary, conqueror of highbrow (29,002 ft.) Mount Everest, the fact was grim and rocky: a hill he cannot climb. On a vacation trip to the 7,030-ft. Scott Knob in his homeland, Sir Edmund tried for the second time in 14 years to reach its lowly top, was forced to turn back 500 ft. from victory by an impassable rock face. Daunted only for the nonce, he muttered a plucky Hillary challenge: "I'll be back...
Gold stocks, which have shown recent strength on news that the government proposes to increase subsidies to high-cost producers by 25%, were left behind in the speculative rush, closed the week off slightly; Western oils and base metals shared the same fate. But industrials continued a slow climb on good business news from Canadian industry, rose 1½ points for the week...
Last week many of the lead indicators were pointing up. The Leading group is expected to show a rise for May, and climb above the 50 mark for the first time in a year. This is a good though not infallible sign that the economy has seen the worst. Said Economist Moore: "The way these indicators have behaved, an upturn in business activity should come during the second half of 1958. But business activity may not return to the peak levels of last July until late 1959 or early...
...Xenophon's most moving passages, as the exhausted troops climb slowly up one more mountain, there suddenly rises from the front rank a tremendous cry. "Xenophon, hearing this, thought that more enemies were attacking in front; for some were following behind them from the burning countryside . . . But when the shouts grew louder and nearer, as each group came up it went pelting along to the shouting men in front, and the shouting was louder and louder as the crowds increased. Xenophon mounted his horse, and took Lycios with his horsemen, and galloped to bring help. Soon they heard...
...stereotype, one of thousands of America's gifted children turned out of high school incubators with a diploma, a pat on the back, perhaps a tear or two, and three or four years of intellectual stasis behind him. His are the narrow shoulders upon which the nation expects to climb to the moon, to harness atomic energy for peaceful purposes, to solve the questions of sociological change, and to patch up the globular balloon for another generation of battering. He is also our greatest tragedy...