Word: everest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...altitude. Sportsmen in low-lying Britain and Belgium, with no facilities at hand for high-altitude training, have gone so far as to suggest moving the Olympic endurance events to sea level-say, steaming Veracruz. An eminent American physiologist has proposed that the U.S. establish a base camp, Everest style, on the Mexican coast, and fly athletes to Mexico City on split-second timing to compete during the first hour after their arrival, before the altitude has time to erode their performance...
...EVEREST: THE WEST RIDGE by Thomas F. Hornbein. 198 pages. Sierra Club. $25. The sheer sight of Mount Everest, its 29,028-ft. summit supporting the roof of the world, strikes awe in the hearts of mountaineers and non-mountaineers alike. It is a pity that this otherwise magnificent full-color photographic record of the 1963 U.S. expedition includes only one full portrait of the mountain, and that a distant one. The book also could have supplied a map tracing the Americans' course, as well as the routes of the two other successful climbs, the first being the British...
...Strasbourg, France, last week, ribbon-cutting dignitaries opened a modest building with a grandiose name, "Palace of Human Rights." It is the first permanent home of the European Court of Human Rights, and the festivities were no sooner over than the court faced up to a judicial Everest: ruling on the language rights of northern Belgium's French-speaking minority. In the third case of its six-year history, the court's decision may also determine whether the court itself lives or dies...
AMERICANS ON EVEREST (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Orson Welles narrates a report on the conquest of Mount Everest by an American team, as seen in on-the-spot film footage. Color...
INTERNATIONAL PIANO FESTIVAL (Everest) provides an opportunity for piano lovers to hear and compare the styles of several virtuosos-Arrau, Backhaus, Brailowsky, Casadesus, Janis and Kempff-in a single benefit concert for the U.N. Commission for World Refugees. The program hitches together the warhorses of the piano repertory, but they are played with freshness and excitement. Standouts are Wilhelm Backhaus' definitive "Moonlight" Sonata, Byron Janis' unabashedly grand performance of Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6, and Wilhelm Kempff's crystalline playing of Schubert's Impromptu in G Major...