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...assault on Mount Everest, joined another rarefied company. At White House ceremonies, President Kennedy handed him the National Geographic Society's seldom awarded (only 21 times in 57 years) Hubbard Medal, which put him among such trail blazers as Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Colonel Charles Lindbergh and-fittingly-Sir Edmund Hillary. The president also passed out replicas of the gold medal to the rest of Dyhrenfurth's 20-man American team, and to Nawang Gombu, the diminutive Sherpa mountaineer who helped Expedition Member James Whittaker, 34, plant the Stars and Stripes atop Everest for the first time...
Advised by Lindbergh. Though a presidential decision on the SST had been expected, Kennedy's timing was obviously triggered by what he called "competition from across the Atlantic." Only the day before, Pan American World Airways' crafty President Juan Trippe, 63, announced that he had ordered six supersonic Concordes from a government-sponsored Anglo-French consortium. The needle-nosed Concordes will fly at Mach 2.2 (or 2.2 times the speed of sound), are expected to enter commercial service in 1968. (Trippe went after the Concorde at the urging of Pan Am's distinguished aviation consultant, Charles...
...Huxley sails far-distant waters. She is part Anne Morrow Lindbergh ("Listen to the sea-only listen"), part Lee Strasberg ("Become an animal; make the noises your animal makes; feel as it feels; think as it thinks; eat as it eats"), part Vic Tanny ("Hang a tether ball on a nail; punch it; punch, punch, punch"). She is a sort of Reader's Digest to the world's philosophies, dipping briefly into Zen, Yoga, evangelism, estheticism and existentialism. She dips as well, unfortunately, into sheer medical foolishness, instructs readers in search of momentary relief from irritation to plunge...
...read in your Letters column of April 5 that Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. was the youngest person to be on the cover of TIME. Could you please tell me who was the oldest person ever to appear on the cover...
Died. Lyman James Briggs, 88, director of the National Bureau of Standards from 1933 until his retirement in 1945, a physicist of scope and versatility who devised the earth inductor compass, a navigation boon that Charles Lindbergh used on his transatlantic flight, developed the centrifuge method for classifying soils by moisture content, and helped lead the U.S. into nuclear physics as chairman of the Uranium Committee (forerunner of the Manhattan Project); of a heart attack; in Washington...