Word: gunther
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...route is "a good holiday, but not really challenging." Messner has never used oxygen in his life, he says with a trace of pride. But he offers freely the opinion that his memory has been dulled by long periods of oxygen deprivation. There have been other prices. His brother Gunther died in an avalanche while climbing with him on Nanga Parbat, in the Himalayas. Messner has lost several toes and parts of three fingers to frostbite. And he admits that it was not worth it. "If somebody had told me, on the next expedition you will lose your toes...
...small comment on the present that it now takes two journalists to do what one John Gunther did some 40 years ago in Inside U.S.A. Gunther's book is clearly the model for Neal Peirce and Jerry Hagstrom's Bunyanesque effort to package the long-and shortcomings of each state in one readable volume. Peirce, a syndicated columnist, and Hagstrom, both editors of the Government affairs weekly National Journal, offer a mint of trivia: the country's longest front porch is at the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island, Mich.; Georgia leads in poultry production; Louisiana is first...
...hope of reversing the liberalism of the Earl Warren era. So how conservative is the Burger Court? As the Justices last week completed one of their most vigorous terms in the past decade and a half, they seemed to have ruled the question irrelevant. Says Stanford Law Professor Gerald Gunther, after considering the term's work: "They are beyond left or right description and therefore unpredictable." Concurs Professor G. Edward White of the University of Virginia Law School: "It is a floating court, with no Justices continually carrying the balance of power...
Shakespeare's recollection of a dead son in King John echoes through the literary works of grieving authors, from John Gunther's Death Be Not Proud (1953) to Mary-Lou Weisman's Intensive Care: A Family Love Story (1982). Books about children struck down by disease seem to constitute a genre; by now the reader should be inured. Yet some of those memoirs still have the power to move...
...Howard Lawrence of West Hollywood, Calif., parents of TV's Vicki Lawrence, who have accumulated more than 2,000 covers, achieved their goal in 1958 with a letter simply sent to "John Gunther, Inside New York." But their hobby has exposed them to many unanticipated hazards. British Prime Minister Clement Attlee (1945, 1950, 1954) held out until the Lawrences sent him money for postage, Mahatma Gandhi (five-time cover subject) until they donated 10 rupees (then $3.32) to the Indian poor. After the Lawrences wrote to the King of Belgium (1949), the King's administrators contacted...