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...lavishly air-supplied U.S. occupancy, it has been described as "looking like a Chinese laundry after a hurricane," with assorted litter peppering the snow. But getting around the Antarctic by land is still quite a trick. Last week New Zealand's Sir Edmund Hillary, conqueror of Mt. Everest, arrived at the South Pole after a 1,200-mile journey by tractor from the British base at Scott Station on the Ross Sea (see map). He made it with only one drum of gasoline left, enough for 20 miles of travel...
Beethoven: the Late Quartets Nos. 12-16 (Hollywood String Quartet; Capitol, 5 LPs). Despite its frivolous name-its members are movie studio musicians-the Hollywood Quartet is a first-class outfit, and it meets this Everest of chamber music on its own heights. It lacks the bite, power and drive of the Budapest, whose Beethoven performances are unique, but its tone is warmer. In the haunting sighs and groans of the tragic No. 14, the Hollywood dips beneath the surface to the inner life of a matchless work...
...members include Agna Boass of Greycroft House and Sherburn, Biology; Mary E. Costanza of Coggeshall House and Quincy, Philosophy; Rebecca Hoge of Everest House and Wayland, English; Ellen B. Kritzman of McIntire House and Glenhead, N.Y., Biology; Mrs. Dorothy M. Mermin of Cambridge, English; Lynn V. Moorhead of Cabot Hall and Poplar Grove, III., Biochemical Sciences, and Janice D. Rowe of Greycroft House and Woburn, Far Eastern Languages...
Shortly before a Russian dog became the highest form of animal life (see SCIENCE), Sherpa Guide Tensing Norkay, co-conqueror of Mount Everest, trotted out one of a Tibetan breed that formerly contended for the altitude mark. Raised in the high Himalayas, Tensing's homebred personal pet, a Lhasa Apso, was a notable attraction at a London kennel club show...
...refined as that of the most finicky Western vinophile. There is a weatherbeaten Malayan old man of the sea who knows the language of the fish (sharks say "snnnnnng KWAH"). And there is-in perhaps the most haunting portrait of all-modest, bewildered Tenzing Norkay, conqueror of Mount Everest, now half-man and half-God by Asian standards. In his Darjeeling home, he is badgered by reporters, featherbedded with relatives, envied and slandered by the poorer fellow Sherpas. Says he: "I thought if I climbed Everest whole world very good. I never thought like this...