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World-renowned mountain climber Robert H. Bates '33 will present a color film this evening on the scaling of K-2, Robert A. Page Jr. '60, president of the Harvard Mountaineering Club, announced yesterday. The film will be shown at 8 p.m. in the Union Lower Common Room...
...glacier at 7,000 ft., the four began their long push-the kind of adventure that pales a plains dweller. At 12,500 ft., they labored nine hours to hack 7-by-7-ft. platform from a 45° ice slope, wryly called it Concentration Camp, complete, as one climber noted, "with a handy garbage disposal - a 1,600-ft. drop." Ahead lay two deadly perils: a pair of giant, swelling domes of blue ice that left them as exposed to the fickle Alaskan weather as flies on a wall. Some 1,700 ft. of rope hammered into...
...executive was eagerly reading a book in a plain wrapper. The train hit a New Haven bump, the book fell to the floor, and the title was revealed for all to see: The Status Seekers. By the rules of status seeking, it was a serious goof: no smart social climber wants to be caught showing too much interest in the book, since anyone in secure social status should be above any concern with the restless and near-universal scramble for position that Author Vance (The Hidden Persuaders) Packard undertakes to describe...
Room at the Top. The novel by John Braine, one of England's Angry Young Men, has a plot about a social climber which is centuries old, but all the same it comes out one of the real British movie triumphs...
...this, the movie starts off well enough; it is, at the beginning, an almost excellent satire of the social climber, given bite by the implication that the climber's position is not so much his own fault as that of society. And some of society's offenders appear more sharply in this light than they do in the book. The gruff nature of M. de Renal, for one, is brilliantly emphasized, providing a clear motive for Julien's well meditated social ascent. Then, too, the seduction scenes are fine stuff, exhibiting some well coordinated pussyfooting from bedroom to bedroom...