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Alcide de Gasperi has been in tight spots before. For a good part of his life he was, by hobby, a mountain climber. Once, many years ago, he slipped from a ledge in the Dolomites and twirled for 20 minutes at the end of a rope before he pulled himself to safety...
...secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, is the one through which Stalin fashioned his real control over Russia, and Malenkov his claims to the succession. Now it will be occupied by a reorganized secretariat of five men, headed by Nikita S. Khrushchev, 58, the tough, slow but steady climber in the hierarchy of Soviet power, who won notoriety by his ruthlessness in putting down discontent in the Ukraine...
...Alec Guinness spoofs the "climber...
...though brother Alfred Gwynne, who fell heir to the bulk of the estate, evened things up somewhat by giving Cornelius another $6,000,000. Cornelius' mother, who made little secret of the fact that she regarded her daughter-in-law as a climber, did nothing to ease Grace into the charmed circle of the elite...
...their real ordeal was yet to come. Throughout the trip to New Delhi, much of it on coolie back, the expedition doctor kept amputating. Without anesthetics and using large shears, he kept snipping until Lachenal had lost all his toes, Herzog all his toes and fingers. When Climber Herzog is asked: "Was it worth it?" he merely smiles. The last words of his book: "There are other Annapurnas in the lives...