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...their task made all the trickier because the surface of the rock was covered with fresh ice. Finally, at 6 p.m. they reached the base of the vertical wall and collapsed, exhausted, on a narrow ledge-the first horizontal surface they had seen in five days. They had not eaten or drunk in 72 hours, and when they staggered back into Zermatt after seven days on the Matterhorn, they discovered that newspapers had already given them up for dead. Dead? Next day Bonatti went skiing for exercise, and two days later he was back on the mountain, attacking the north...
...financial success of the system, John W. Folacheck '64-4, its originator, said yesterday, has been due to the nearly equal number of interhouse meals eaten in the various dormitories...
...back to the harsh hill country of west-central Texas where he was born in 1908. Historian Walter Prescott Webb describes it as a land of "nauseating loneliness," whose inhabitants were "far from markets, burned by drought, beaten by hail, withered by hot winds, frozen by blizzards, eaten out by grasshoppers, exploited by capitalists and cozened by politicians...
Brillat-Savarin should have eaten so well. As a table fish, the steelhead offers the best of both its worlds: its flesh has the pink color and high fat content of a saltwater salmon, the delicacy and firmness of a fresh-water trout. Stuffed with onion, lined with bacon strips, drenched in tomato sauce, wrapped in foil and roasted over an open fire, the steelie is enough to make a gourmand out of a gourmet. But it is the sport, not the stomach, that makes a steelhead fisherman. Snorts one oldtimer: "Catching a steelhead for food is like visiting...
...again in a war where cruelty is common to both sides. Last week thousands of Congolese suspected of rebel sympathies were herded into the Stanleyville stadium and tried "by acclamation." Those found guilty were taken to the Congo's banks and either shot, or thrown in, to be eaten by crocodiles. But the Simbas still took the palm for bloodthirstiness. In one town they raped 19 nuns, including a 60-year-old Dutch sister, then hacked to death an American, Sister Marie Antoinette, before the others' eyes. In Isangi, six Belgians were devoured not by crocodiles...