Word: experts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...actual Swiss assault on Everest is expected to come in May. Avalanche Expert Roch, echoing the aspirations of mountaineers the world over, hopes to climb Everest for other reasons than Mallory's simple "because it's there." Alpinist Roch is also imaginatively challenged by other inaccessible Himalaya buttresses and spires. Says Roch: "The great attraction of the Himalayas lies not only in reaching a summit, but also in the simple contemplation of the wild flanks which probably never can be climbed...
...months ago, 1,200 exhibits have been introduced, more than 5,000,000 words of testimony put on the record. So far, the case has cost the defendants-and U.S. taxpayers-millions of dollars. The issues at stake are huge; if the Government wins, there will be what one expert called a "revolution" in the U.S. money market. Since the firms on trial handle the bulk of all negotiated underwritten security issues, a decision against them would permit the Government to lay down rules to change virtually all investment-banking procedures. Last week such possibilities seemed remote; it was plain...
...Government witness was Harold L. Stuart, 70, head of Chicago's huge Halsey, Stuart investment banking house and a longtime friend of Cyrus Eaton, Fair-Dealing financier blamed by many Wall Streeters for stirring the Government into action in the first place. Stuart was there as an expert, and Medina was glad to see him. He welcomed him as "a real live witness who can tell me about this investment-banking business . . . instead of staying in the dark, as I stayed for over a year...
...pleasant surprise. Housing starts were at the rate of 950,000 a year; materials were so plentiful that builders will be able to put up all the houses they can sell. The big question now is: How many can they sell? Said Real Estate Economist Roy Wenzlick, a top expert in the field: "I think the real-estate boom is starting to get tired...
...Cousin Rachel, by Daphne du Maurier. An expert mixture of suspense and romantic hokum, set in the Rebecca country 100 or more years ago (TIME...