Word: everest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among long-distance saltwater swallowers, the treacherous 22-mile strait from the Farallon Islands to the California mainland near San Francisco has a reputation roughly like Mount Everest...
...effect on the author's pocketbook. Philadelphian Jacqueline Susann, an advocate of brotherly, sisterly, fatherly, motherly, and potato love, has made it to "the top of Mount Everest" as her dolls have not. Writing in an orange, red, and yellow den which she wittily calls "the chamber of horrors," the former acrtess and five-time winner of the Best-Dressed TV Star award has stirred up a honeypot and attracted all the bees from the shyest bus driver to 20th-Century...
When a Detroit automaker adopted a new group insurance plan not long ago, the insurance company found itself facing an Everest of clerical work: individual policy certificates had to be made out for each of 330,000 employees. What to do? Why, call for the Kelly Girls, of course. They came on, 125 strong, and in 15 days polished off a job that would have kept regular staffers on overtime for weeks...
...Little, "half Indian, half white and all I.W.W.," was lynched by masked men in Butte, Montana, but not before he had said: "Better to go out in a blaze of glory than to give in." When a mob of war veterans stormed I.W.W. head quarters in Centralia, Wash., Wesley Everest was cornered and caught. He sneered: "You haven't got the guts to hang a man in the daytime." He was right: the mob came back that night, snatched him from jail and hanged his bullet-riddled body from a bridge...
...Hotel, which offers its guests an elephant-back excursion through the jungles. For the athletic, there is a $300-a-week hiking trip through tiny Buddhist villages, across flower-carpeted Himalayan meadows and on up to the level of mountain climbers' base camps (16,000 ft.) on Mount Everest...