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...paragraph stories that appeared in most of the nation's press didn't tell much. As usual, Hersey, 36, an Englishman who lived in Boulder, Colorado, had been climbing alone. No one knows what went wrong, at what height, on a route that should have been relatively easy for him. It was a private death, leaving too few scraps to make a puzzle. Cearley's fall seems easier to understand. He and two companions had made the arduous climb to the 20,320-ft. summit and back down to 18,500 ft. As they stopped to rest and rope...
Today, halfway through his 13th year as dean, McArthur is at the height of his professional career, far removed from the Vancouver sawmill where he got his start...
ROTC's popularity was at its height, for it represented the ultimate desire to serve one's country. Sawhill says this desire reflected the overriding philanthropic philosophy of the time. "The whole program worked in those days...[Now] it's much more self than nation." The "pivot point," he says, was Vietnam...
...almost always there was a hard core of vision and purpose. Russell made sure that the U.S. kept its military edge at the height of the cold war. Without trying, Russell became the monument that the Russell Senate Office Building was named for. He basked in the Senate interplay, yet was so devoted to a larger cause it was said he never solicited a vote except on the merits of a bill. When he rose, the galleries quieted. He never looked up but spoke to the floor where his colleagues were collected. When asked once about his huge influence...
...Vasiljevic's Jugoskandik Bank continue to rumble in Belgrade. Thousands of furious depositors took to the streets to demand their money back and stirred panicky runs on other banks, leaving Belgrade as frenzied over finance as over the latest Western sanctions. When Vasiljevic fled to Israel at the height of the Jugoskandik scandal, the departure only fueled his ever growing legend. No sooner had he left town than local papers breathlessly reported rumors that a Tel Aviv-bound Sabena Airlines flight had made an unscheduled stop in Belgrade and taken off with bags bulging with cash, presumably taken directly from...