Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Park Forest, Ill...
...Climb Up to Hell, by Jack Olsen. The north face of Switzerland's Eiger (Ogre) Mountain is perhaps the most suicidal climb in the Alps, and the author's account of four ill-equipped men who tried to climb it in 1957 is thoughtful and exciting...
...Also last in a field of three, the Houston Press, by contrast, is seriously ill. Down to 20-page issues and a local reportorial staff of eleven (against the Chronicle's 71 and the Post's 28), the Press has lost touch with its community. Sample banner headline: GARRY MOORE SUED FOR $40,000. Once known as the only fighting newspaper in Houston, the Press these days shows less stomach for a scrap. >In El Paso, on the Rio Grande, the Herald-Post is the prosperous and aggressive reflection of Editor Ed Pooley. 64, who has spent...
...Ill lay: Charles Laughton, 63, jowly, stentorian actor, spending his third month in a Hollywood hospital suffering from what his doctors now announce is cancer of the lower spine; Eleanor Roosevelt, 77, whose annual week-long checkup at a Manhattan hospital was extended for treatment of an infectious lung condition; Edward R. Murrow, 54, chain-smoking chief of the U.S. Information Agency, in a U.S. Army hospital in Teheran, Iran, with a "mild" case of pneumonia; Otto E. Passman, 62. congressional foe of foreign aid. who tripped over some plastic clothing bags in his Washington office and broke his left...
...Kearsarge's captain for "permission to come aboard.'' "Permission granted." said Captain Eugene P. Rankin. After blowing the side hatch on deck. Schirra climbed out and was borne away for a physical examination and hours of dictating his observations. Doctors reported that he showed no ill effects from his nine-hour flight...