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Chote is less than a simple climber. He is an empty man, one of nature's nihilists. For every serious matter he has a tweeded pose and a hollow, echoing gibe. He even sneaks into one or another of Oxford's numerous, empty churches, but nothing happens in the gothic twilight...
...hail-fellow parties other automen love, even more rarely invited the brass to his home-a modest, $50,000 English Tudor house near the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor, far from the mansions of most other auto executives in Bloomfield Hills and Grosse Pointe. An ardent mountain climber, McNamara reads widely and well (current choices: The Phenomenon of Man, W. W. Rostow's The Stages of Growth), urges his favorites on often bewildered fellow executives. His mind, says a friend who has seen him in Ann Arbor discussions, "is a beautiful instrument, free from leanings and adhesions...
Young Glaser, a bachelor, climbs low-resistance mountains ("I'm not the rope and piton type of climber"). He is still devoted to music, and may spend part of the $43,627 Nobel Prize on a really good viola. His boss, Chancellor Glenn Seaborg, a Nobel prizewinner himself, says, not wholly in jest, that he realized Glaser was highly eligible for a Nobel Prize and enticed him to Berkeley just in time to get some of the credit for the University of California...
...First Your Hat . . ." Mountain Man Clyde took the long way around getting to be top climber in the Sierra. Son of a Presbyterian minister in Philadelphia, he graduated as a classics scholar from Pennsylvania's Geneva College, but in 1909 he was lured to California by the writings of Naturalist John Muir. Clyde put in a dozen restless years teaching school, then quit and took to the Sierra for good...
When search parties set out after a lost climber, Clyde usually hunts by himself, preferring to rely on his own knowledge of his mountains. In the early '30s, he started after a lost lawyer by guessing that he would have headed for the highest minaret in the area. Coming upon a pile of rocks of the sort climbers erect as trail markers, Clyde found fresh grass underneath. Clyde reasoned that the missing lawyer had recently built the pile, had probably already climbed and descended the highest minaret. "Then I figured he would try the second-highest minaret," recalls Clyde...