Word: col
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...veteran Himalayaman Eric Shipton, the Britons climbed to a 20,000-ft. buttress on nearby Pumori for a glimpse of a new route. They found they could see right over the treacherous ice fall to the head of the Western Cwm,t about 2,500-ft. below the South Col* (see diagram). To Shipton it looked as if there was a direct route up to the 25,000-ft. mark on Lhotse, followed by a traverse to the South Col. In a later climb up the silent, towering spires of the ice fall, Shipton's party was thwarted near...
...Boston Col. 4, Amer...
...national per capita income is $35 a year-lowest of all Arab countries, with the possible exception of Yemen. Italians. of whom there are still 47,000 out of the thousands who immigrated to Libya when it was to become Mussolini's model col ony, still hold many of the best jobs, own the best farms, run the best businesses. Eight-tenths of the people are farmers or nomadic herdsmen, yet a U.N. survey team reports discouragedly that the country "is hardly able to afford an adequate diet for its own people...
Blue and red, like mingled ice and fire, rule the windows. The blue, in scores of subtle hues, admits arrows of sapphin light. The red spills a hail of rubies into the cathedral's dimness. Diamondlike borders of white dots keep the chief col ors from crowding each other. Subsidiary greens, purples and golds help create an effect richer and more various than New England's autumn foliage...
...those interested in these programs should see Lt. Col. Elder between Tuesday and Friday of next week from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. or from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the N.R.O.T.C. building...