Word: edmunds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...peculiar species of human: the mountaineer. Since 1920, when Tibet first agreed to let foolhardy foreigners gamble their lives against an instant of immortality at the rooftop of the world, 15 expeditions have started for the summit. Two, perhaps three, made it: New Zealand's Sir Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa guide, Tenzing, first conquered Everest in 1953; a Swiss party followed in 1956; and Soviet-Chinese climbers say they planted a statue of Mao Tse-tung at the top in 1960-a claim that most experts do not believe. Other expeditions met only heartbreak or death...
...September 1961 Castro cops burst into a room in Havana's Seguro Medico (Medical Insurance) Building. They found three Americans-Daniel Carswell of Eastchester, N.Y., Eustace Danbrunt of Baltimore, and Edmund Taransky of New York City-surrounded by electronic listening devices. All three were agents of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. And they were bugging the newly opened Havana headquarters of Hsinhua, a Communist Chinese "news" agency. The CIA men were arrested and sentenced to ten years in Castro's dungeons...
Died. General Sir Harold Edmund Franklyn, 77, commander of Britain's beleaguered 5th Division in France in 1940. whose gallant attack with his badly outnumbered forces at Arras so alarmed the German High Command that it delayed the Nazi advance, thereby giving the British 24 extra hours during the retreat to Dunkirk; of a heart attack; in Newbury, Berkshire...
...largest transport. Once a week, an immense Russian turboprop TU-114 transport lifts from the runway of Havana's José Marti airport and points north on the 6,800-mile run to Moscow. Among the passengers aboard last week's flight was TIME'S Correspondent Edmund Stevens, the first Westerner ever to make the trip. His report...
...faintly ludicrous scene in which adultery is discussed as a venture in mental health and an experiment in scientific objectivity. Dr. Edmund Darrell (Ben Gazzara) agrees to sire her child. Unfortunately, the guinea pigs, as they call themselves, fall in love. But to save Sam's sanity, the child is raised as Sam's son. and grows to hate his real father. Years pass. Sam bloats with pride. Darrell shrivels with self-contempt, and Nina pins her heart on her son's sleeve until a flapper (Jane Fonda) steals...