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...reach the summit of Mount McKinley, the tallest peak in North America, by July 4. These Bicentennial climbs will put 800 to 1,000 people near the top at one time. One of the parties plans to try to raise President Ford by radio once it has reached the crest...
British Prime Minister James Callaghan 's Labor Cabinet is six weeks old, and "Sunny Jim " is still enjoying an early crest of popular approval. Some of that can be traced to his government's success in negotiating a second-phase pay increase limit with the country's trade unions that is designed to halve Britain's critical inflation rate to about 6% by the end of next year. Another Callaghan asset is his personal openness and ebullience. At his new official home at No. 10 Downing Street, he tells visitors that he feels like a cardinal...
Obviously no mortal can hope to exhibit all of these qualities, though some of Carter's detractors wonder whether he knows that. No matter; in the euphoria of last week, most things must have seemed possible to Jimmy Carter, as he rode the crest of his campaign for the presidency. So certain was he, with good reason, of winning the Democratic nomination at Madison Square Garden in July that he began making a list of whom he might choose as a running mate. He says that his most important considerations are to pick someone who is qualified to step...
During their one-week tour, the Classics rode on the crest of the basketball mania that is sweeping Puerto Rico. "The fans don't know much about the game," says Kallaugher, "but they get totally shitfaced and go around following their home teams." Kallaugher says "it was really kind of a big ego trip. We were celebrities...
Many in the spectator-sex industry believe only a few temporary excesses are keeping the porn controversy alive. They expect porn to crest and ebb and a largely benign boredom to set in. Says the newly mellowed Hugh Hefner (who denounces his fast-rising competitors, Penthouse and Hustler, as "gynecological gazettes"): "We are very much in a stage of transition sexually, and there is bound to be some exploitation...