Word: glaciered
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...Like a glacier, the American Bar Association is a deceptive phenomenon...
...year, some 6,500 of its 125,000 members meet in convention, as they did last week in Honolulu. Papers are read, committees meet, speeches get spoken, progress is made, change takes place. Measurement of that progress and change, however, is not an easy matter. As with a glacier, much of the activity goes on deep within, and the only outward signs of it are a rumble here, a new wrinkle there. Last week in Honolulu there were rumbles of new ideas. Few reached final determination; some were flatly rebuffed. But for the A.B.A., the mere fact of discussion...
...ordeal began on Jan. 30, when a party of eight climbers headed by Colorado's Gregg Blomberg, 25, landed by airplane on Kahiltna Glacier, 7,250 ft. up McKinley's west slope. Less than 24 hours later, France's Jacques Batkin, who was bringing supplies to the base camp at 7,600 ft., plunged 50 ft. to his death in a crevasse hidden by snow and ice. Dr. George Wichman, an orthopedic surgeon and amateur mountaineer from Anchorage, Alaska, saw him fall. "One minute Jacques was there," recalls Wichman. "He was hauling his load, chest thrown...
...order was more spectacular in Czechoslovakia than in any other East European economy and because the scope of the new order is so sweeping, Sik's reform could well light a beacon that would illuminate the economies of all Communism. A failure could as easily bring the glacier of centralism crashing down again. In any event, Communism as an economic philosophy has already been altered beyond Marxian recognition. All that will be left of the Communist system is state ownership of property. The problems and the motives of the entire economy will be enterprising and free...
...situation then is that Lesley girls are very much like all other college girls; many Harvard men, however, don't seem to believe this. The girls said they did see a crack in the Harvard glacier, though. Judy told about her freshmen year when her residence advisor and a Harvard proctor whom the advisor knew arranged a series of parties. The two groups became great friends and dates. They still see each other, Judy said...