Word: icing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Texas, a subsidiary of Allied Stores in San Antonio, went back to old-fashioned selling methods. Sales Promotion Vice President Jim Keenan plugged Frigidaires in splashy newspaper ads, cut out down payments and sent his 80 salesmen out to ring doorbells. Some used the old trick of following an ice wagon down the street to find householders still using iceboxes. One man stayed out so many nights selling that he finally decided to take his wife along: she talked to housewives while he cornered the husbands...
What follows his escape is a mad chase on locomotives through the slumbering countryside, a scene with all the peculiar virtues of the Keystone Cops, the drawings of Punch's artist Emett, and Liza crossing the ice...
...rest of their story sounds like a Pearl White thriller. When the group woke up in the morning they were covered with three inches of snow, and spent most of the day edging down the face. Then they started on the road back home--a seven-mile ice field called the Illecilliwaet Neve--through a blinding snowstorm and with only two cans of Spam and a handful of prunes for food. They were on it for 28 hours, and just had enough strength to effect rescue when one of the students fell twenty feet into a crevasse...
Rock-climbing is one side of mountaineering; the other side is ice-climbing. HMC members wear "crampons" with two-inch spikes when they're ice-climbing, and carry ice axes to chop zig-zag staircases in glaores. "Glissading" is their name for skiing down a slope without any exis; "glassading" is a similar procedure involving another part of the anatomy...
With its rock-climbs at Quincy and its ice-climbs at Mt. Washington, HMC promises to prepare a novice for mountain conditions anywhere in the Alps. Just why a man should want to travel 4000 miles to climb an obscure pinnacle in Liechtenstein, of course, is a question that even a mountaineer couldn't answer.Getting down off a cliff can be just as hard as getting up. FREDERICK L. DUNN '51 (left) demonstrates the easy way--if you don't mind feeling like the heroine of "Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight." The technique is called "rapelling." Dunn wraps the rope...