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Carter had been in Alaska before, mostly climbing Mt. Crillon, but also skiing...
...tiny station and on the platform stood tall Premier Flandin with short Foreign Minister Laval beaming welcome. Out hopped Chancellor Schuschnigg with his Foreign Minister, morose Dr. Egon Berger-Waldenegg. Stepping into a sleek Renault all four statesmen sped through Paris, delivered Fascist Schuschnigg safe at the ornate Hotel Crillon while patient police kept the duped and battling Reds and Pinks at the Gare de l'Est as busy as they could...
...explained and showed photographs of his four attempts to climb Mt. Waddington, a 13,000 foot peak in the Coast Range of British Columbia. The evening was concluded with a brief account by Bradford Washburn '31. President of the club, of the conquest last summer, of Mt. Crillon by a Harvard-Dartmouth expedition under his leadership...
Benito Mussolini knew that there was more to the conversations than that. So did the French Government. Minister of Marine François Pietri sent his silk hat out to be steamed before hurrying down to Marseilles to meet King Alexander. In the Hotel Crillon in Paris chambermaids scoured the royal suite till it gleamed, and at a dozen French parade grounds troops tramped up & down before exasperated sergeants getting ready for a great state review. So great was the stake in the game he was about to play that at the last minute, Foreign Minister Barthou himself decided...
...measurement of glacial movement, not only over the course of weeks, but also in hours. Unexpected results were obtained, showing that the glacier suddenly slid forward during the evening around supper time, again about midnight, and once more early in the morning. The average movement of the Crillon glacier, the one studied most in detail, was two inches an hour. Dynamite blasting was also done to determine the depth of the ice by means of the returning reverberations, but the computations from field data have not been completed...