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Warren Harding (no kin to the President) had led the first conquest of El Capitan by the easier, "Nose" route in 1958. He met Dean Caldwell, a climber since his teens, in a bar in the Yosemite Lodge two years ago, and the two set out to master the most difficult path up the 3,000-ft. cliff in their first climb together. Harding, 46, and Caldwell, 27, hauled 300 pounds of equipment. They averaged only 150 ft. each day, screwing expansion bolts into the wall as they inched their way upward. The ascent-originally scheduled to take twelve days...
Dark Imaginations. As the century began, the settled rules of neoclassicist art could no longer contain the experience of a generation of Germans who had grown up with war, conquest and instability. The dark woods and branching Gothic vegetation that Dürer and SchÖngauer had engraved came back to haunt living artists; the full force of literary romanticism, with its themes of love, death, exile and transcendence, played over them. The caped solitary figures in Caspar David Friedrich's paintings, staring mutely at the horizon with backs turned, are like footnotes to Goethe's Sorrows...
...historic contest with Communism is not its costly and far-flung military establishment, but its superior capacity for economic progress. In a figurative sense, we can only conquer the East with the tender sword of commercial and industrial cooperation, and the human freedoms that go with it. The conquest will be even more tender in that deeply within the psyche it is deeply desired by the victim...
...idea was conceived at a G.L.F. symposium last January in Berkeley. Reconnaissance parties of homosexuals disguised as fishermen and tourists were quickly dispatched to Alpine, and returned pronouncing it ripe for electoral conquest. The G.L.F. began stockpiling food, negotiating to buy land in Alpine, and signing up recruits for the exodus-nearly 500 have enlisted so far. In an article in the Los Angeles Free Press, G.L.F. Leader Don Jackson wrote glowingly of "a gay civil service, gay housing erected with funds furnished by the state and federal governments, and the world's first museum of gay arts, sciences...
...plans," said Dr. Ebert at a recent dinner which honored Dr. White, "are laid in the hope that from the Fund's modest financial beginning we may be able to increase this financial resource and thus enable others to move ahead in Dr. White's footsteps, recognizing that the conquest of disease and human misery is a common goal that transcends national boundaries and petty prejudices...