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...Zealand's beekeeping Mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary, conqueror of highbrow (29,002 ft.) Mount Everest, the fact was grim and rocky: a hill he cannot climb. On a vacation trip to the 7,030-ft. Scott Knob in his homeland, Sir Edmund tried for the second time in 14 years to reach its lowly top, was forced to turn back 500 ft. from victory by an impassable rock face. Daunted only for the nonce, he muttered a plucky Hillary challenge: "I'll be back...
...sure of a gentle uplift from Congress, possibly much more. As against a total of $211 million for NIH ($153 million of it for research) in the fiscal year ended June 30, the House voted $219 million for NIH, while the Senate's bill called for an Everest ascent to $321 million. At week's end House-Senate conferees were deadlocked, decided to take a two-week breather. But if the Senate prevailed over the House-even so far as to win a split-the-difference agreement -the nation's medical research outlays would be starting...
...temporary retirement was well-traveled Sir Edmund Hillary, conqueror of Mount Everest and the South Pole, who withdrew from a proposed lecture tour in Britain, as he put it, "to stay home with Mum and the kids"-for a year-in New Zealand. In the Hillary future: physiological endurance tests in his old freezing grounds, the Himalayas, possibly another Antarctic expedition...
Married. General Earle Everard Partridge, U.S.A.F., 57, commander of the North American Air Defense Command; and Elizabeth Strong Cowles, 41, alpinist, member of the 1950 American expedition to Mt. Everest; both for the second time; in Colorado Springs...
Depot 700. Tall (6 ft. 3 in.), methodical Sir Edmund trained for his trip as he trained for Mt. Everest. He and his men started with the snowfields of the New Zealand Alps, then moved to Antarctica, where for nearly a year they tested themselves and their tractors in the worst possible weather. Last Oct. 14 he set out from the Ross Sea base, led a supply train with four tractors up the Skelton Glacier to the ice-covered tableland on the far side of Antarctica's main mountain range. When he had established Depot 700 (700 miles from...