Word: matterhorn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Safe were those evenings of the pre-war world/When I turned to Archibald, my safe old bear"). The late Donald Campbell set new speed records with his "Mr. Woppit" along for the ride, and Mountain Climber Walter Bonnati got through one low point on his solitary trek up the Matterhorn's north slopes by confessing his "sins" to Zissi, a tiny Teddy in his knapsack. Princess Alexandra of Kent became almost inconsolable when her Teddy got lost on a good-will tour of the Far East. "Most Teddy bears," he concludes, "seem to lead frightfully interesting lives...
...million. As executive producer of the Wide World of Sports, which has telecast 90 different sports events in 31 countries, he goes to uncommon lengths "to capture the spirit of the place, the people and the event." In 1965, when a team of mountain climbers scaled the Matterhorn to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the first ascent, they were greeted on top by an ABC camera team that had climbed up the day before to film the event...
Died. John Harlin, 31, a onetime dress designer for Dior and Balmain and an Air Force polar survival expert who became a noted Alpinist and the first American to conquer two of the most dreaded Alps, the Matterhorn and the Eiger, via their treacherous north faces, opened a school in Switzerland specializing in direttissima, an innovation that ignores the traditional zigging and zagging around danger spots for a damn-the-obstacles, straight-up climb to the top; as a result of a 3,000-ft. fall during the first direttissima attempt on the Eiger, successfully completed by the rest...
...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). A climb up the Matterhorn in Switzerland and water-skiing at Pine Mountain...
Whittaker and Prather had nothing but praise for Neophyte Kennedy, but in the eternal spirit of internal Kennedy-family gamesmanship Brother Teddy was quick to point out that Bobby "is not the first Kennedy to climb a mountain. I climbed the Matterhorn, which is higher [14,780 ft.], and I didn't need the Royal Canadian Mounted Police." That was all right with Bobby. "I didn't really enjoy any part of it," he admitted frankly, "but I can understand why people like climbing. They are a special breed of men." Henceforth, he added, "I'm going...