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...Negro population in the U.S. To win time, J. P. Coleman has set himself as the wedge between White Citizens' Councils and the N.A.A.C.P. "What we need." says Coleman, "is peace and quiet. What happened in Clinton, Tenn. will be like a boil on the side of Mount Everest compared to what could happen in Mississippi." Coleman's strategy-difficult to understand in the North, but bold for the Deep South-is to work for racial peace and quiet. Unlike many of his political predecessors, he refuses to exploit segregation as a political issue. Of five candidates...
Indians quickly began to see Chinese Communist agents streaming past Mt. Everest to spy with impunity. To Indian protestations, Nepalese replied that they have a 500-mile border with Tibet and could hardly be expected to reject Communist China's advances indefinitely. To drive home the point, Nepal's Prime Minister Tanka Prasad Acharya .assembled a twelve-man delegation and headed for Peking to talk business...
...jigsaw fragments except to those aware-as all Eastbourne is-of some rumors that the papers dared not print. For example, on Page One, London's conservative Daily Telegraph merely reported that Hannam had interviewed the 72-year-old mother of Sir John Hunt, who led the Mt. Everest expedition, but offered no clue as to why or what resulted beyond the fact that she "described an incident which occurred at a small bridge party she gave about twelve years ago." Another account told of reports that letters written by relatives to aging women were sometimes withheld from them...
Last week when word of his record-breaking flight in late July leaked out at the convention of the Air Force Association in New Orleans. Lieut. Colonel Everest was on his way to a new assignment at the Armed Forces Staff College. Everest, a veteran of more than 14 flying years, was not bothered by the fact that another pilot would soon be flying his plane in altitude tests perhaps at speeds faster than his record. "I've accomplished my mission at Edwards." the world's fastest man told his parents back in Fairmont, W. Va., where...
Died. Thomas D. Bourdillon, 31, British physicist and rocket expert who in 1953, with Dr. Charles Evans, climbed to within 300 feet of Mt. Everest's peak before being turned back by bad weather and lack of oxygen, three days before Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norkey made it to the top; in a fall while climbing Ausserberg in southern Switzerland...