Word: icing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...North America's tallest peak is still one of the most forbidding mountains in the world. From the floor of the Susitna River valley, 1,500 ft. above sea level, the mountain sweeps to 20,320 ft. above central Alaska in a single cascade of rock and ice. In summer, McKinley is merely inhospitable; in winter, it is deadly. For one thing, it is among the coldest places on earth. Actual temperatures range to as low as-100°. Until Feb. 28, no one had climbed Mount McKinley in the wintertime. The men who did it finally made their...
...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 out, shoulders back. And then he was gone...
...intellectual rigor and impatience with time wasters gave Luce the reputation, among those who did not know him, of having no sense of humor and ice water in his veins. But neither was the case. Witness the day that he was sitting in the office of a bureau chief when the door burst open and a member of the staff came whooping in, bottle in hand, tripped on the sill and fell full-length in front of the Editor in Chief. The bureau chief explained to his startled boss that the young man was celebrating the birth...
...hour, we go," says John Wagner of Kansas City's KMBC. "I've had a few knots on my head from banging against the glass while I'm trying to look out." In addition to watching out for traffic below, a reporter has to worry about ice accumulating on his rotor blades, the wash from a jet that can upend a helicopter-and traffic above...
Misspent Youth. To their amusement, only Pennsylvania could recall the famous 1946 Ajax song ("Use Ajax, bumm, bumm, the foaming cleanser . . . "). To the question, "What flavor ice cream did Harpo Marx sell in A Day at the Races", the judges ruled out Princeton's "tutti-frutti" for Yale's more colorful and accurate "tootsi-frootsi...