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...veteran of the Hunt-Hillary climb) remembered their manners and halted a few feet from the summit (28,146 ft.) of Mt. Kanchenjunga to avoid offending local gods. Even so, they earned credit for conquering the world's third highest peak (after Everest, 29,028 ft., and Godwin Austen or K2, 28,250 ft.), the highest mountain until then unclimbed...
...increased slightly faster than numbers of people. In the U.S., food supply increased much faster. An 1870 U.S. farm family produced enough to feed itself and one other family; a 1954 farm family produced enough to feed seven other families. It now seems as if Malthus' opponent, William Godwin, was right in predicting the day when the world's food could be grown in a flowerpot. Last week University of California scientists announced that they had artificially performed nature's basic process of plant life, photosynthesis...
...high, bleak Karakoram, mightiest of the Himalayan ranges, China, Russia, India. Tibet. Afghanistan and Pakistan merge in a tumult of mountains. Dominating the peaks, in the northernmost corner of Pakistan-held Kashmir, is the world's second highest mountain: 28,250-ft. Mt. Godwin Austen, known to mountaineers as K-2.* For years, K-2 has been regarded as unclimbable. Last week the news came through that the unclimbable had been climbed by an Italian expedition led by Ardito Desio, 57, a geology professor at the University of Milan...
Meet the Veep (Sun. 5:30 p.m., NBCTV) helps reduce the ranks of unemployed Democrats by paying ex-Vice President Alben Barkley a reported $2,500 a week for 15 minutes of his time. With the assistance of 72-year-old Newsman Earl Godwin, 75-year-old Barkley fills his show with political anecdotes, sidelights on such personages as Franklin Roosevelt ("He went back to the horse & buggy days in his shaving-he used a straight-edged razor"), and cheery comment on world affairs ("I think Korea is tragic but not insoluble"). For his first show, Barkley won high praise...
...MacArthur (headlined the New York Daily Mirror: WHITE HOUSE WON'T CENSURE MACARTHUR). A.P. had put out a similar story. The Portland Oregon Journal had to yank its editorial that "Truman couldn't fire MacArthur even if he wanted to . . ." Apparently, only NBC's Earl Godwin emerged as a prophet with honor. He had broadcast: "President Truman is not going to let MacArthur get away with it." On the eve of the announcement, Godwin proclaimed: "By tomorrow night there will be a blast...